Posted: 02 Dec 2010 04:00 AM PST

(Delighted to welcome back alumna Nadia Bernaz, who contributes this Read On! guest post)

It is a pleasure to come back on IntLawGrrls (my previous posts are here and here) to announce the Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law, published last month.
I co-edited the Handbook with Professor William A. Schabas, Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway. We wanted to put together a book that would provide a reader new to the area with an introduction to this fast-growing area of law. But, at the same time, we did not want to edit a mere textbook. The whole idea was to give our contributors (who include a number of IntLawGrrls besides myself: Fiona de Londras, Leila Nadya Sadat, Margaret deGuzman, and Nancy Amoury Combs) the freedom to express their opinions, as scholars, on the areas they were asked to write on.
We are really happy with the results as our contributors have manage to deliver concise, original and provocative papers which, combined together in one single publication, make this book greatly relevant to students, scholars and practitioners working in the field.
Here is the table of contents:

1. Introduction, William Schabas and Nadia Bernaz

Part 1: Historical and Institutional Framework
2. Trial at Nuremberg, Guénaël Mettraux
3. The Tokyo Trial, Neil Boister
4. The Trials of Eichmann, Barbie and Finta, Joseph Powderly

5. The Ad Hoc International Criminal Tribunals: Launching a New Era of Accountability, Michael P. Scharf and Margaux Day
6. The International Criminal Court, David Scheffer
7. Hybrid Tribunals, Fidelma Donlon

Part 2: The Crimes
8. Genocide, Paola Gaeta
9. Crimes Against Humanity, Margaret M. deGuzman
10. War Crimes, Anthony Cullen
11. Aggression, Nicolaos Strapatsas
12. Terrorism as an International Crime, Fiona De Londras
13. Drug Crimes and Money Laundering, Robert Cryer

Part 3: The Practice of International Tribunals
14. Understanding the Complexities of International Criminal Tribunal Jurisdiction, Leila Sadat
15. Admissibility in International Criminal Law, Mohamed M. El Zeidy
16. Defences to International Crimes, Shane Darcy
17. Participation in Crimes in the Jurisprudence of the ICTY and ICTR, Mohamed Elewa Badar
18. International Criminal Procedures: Trial and Appeal Procedures, Hakan Friman
19. Sentencing and Penalties, Nadia Bernaz
20. State Cooperation and Transfers, Judge Kimberley Prost
21. Evidence, Nancy Combs

Part 4: Key Issues in International Criminal Law
22. The Rise and Fall of Universal Jurisdiction, Luc Reydams
23. Immunities, Rémy Prouvèze
24. Truth Commissions, Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm
25. State Responsibility and International Crimes, Eric Wyler and León Castellanos-Jankiewicz
26. International Criminal Law and Victims' Rights, Carla Ferstman
27. Amnesties, Louise Mallinder
28. International Criminal Law and Human Rights, Thomas Margueritte
29. Conclusion, William Schabas and Nadia Bernaz

'Nuff said

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 02:30 AM PST

(Taking context-optional note of thought-provoking quotes)

By comparison to those modern post-World War II constitutions, ours is an old-fashioned Constitution, a creature of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. Several years ago, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld disdainfully referred to 'old Europe.' If he had been speaking of human rights, he should have referred to the 'new Europe' and the 'old United States.'

-- Judge William A. Fletcher (above), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in "International Human Rights and the Role of the United States," just published in the Northwestern University Law Review. The article, which idenitifes the United States as an exceptionalist in its approach to human rights, follows another article that Fletcher published a few years ago, in the University of Virginia Law Review. (photo credit) Both were based on lectures given at the respective universities.

On December 2

Posted: 02 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST

On this day in ...
... 1845 (165 years ago today), in his 1st speech to Congress, available in full here, newly elected U.S. President James K. Polk "belligerently" reaffirmed "that all European influence should be removed from the neighborhood of the Un ited States for reasons of national security." Polk's speech came 22 years to the day after the one that established this contention -- the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. Prompting the reassertion of the doctrine by Polk (depicted at top in the campaign ribbon at left) was his "aggressive expansionist program," which "created the outline of the modern American nation." (image credit) The speech came the same month that Texas would become a state in the United States. In the words of this website,

Polk felt that such expansion was part of America's 'manifest destiny.'

(Prior December 2 posts are here, here, and here.)

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