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Standing Up for Justice

The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes

By: Theodor Meron

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Standing Up for Justice

The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes

By: Theodor Meron

This is a book about international criminal justice written by one of its foremost practitioners and academic thinkers, Judge Theodor Meron. For two decades, Judge Meron has been at the heart of the international criminal justice system, serving as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and a Judge of the Appeals Chambers of the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Drawing on this experience, and his life and career before serving as an international judge, Judge Meron reflects on some of the key questions facing the international criminal justice system. In the opening chapter, Judge Meron writes vividly about his childhood experiences in Poland during World War II, his education, career with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and subsequent move into academia in the United States. The book continues with Meron's reflections on what it means to transform from a law professor into an international criminal judge, and shifts focus to the criminal courtroom, addressing topics such as the judicial function, the rule of law, and the principle of fairness in trying atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Judge Meron discusses judicial independence and impartiality in international criminal courts, shedding light on the mystery of judicial decision-making and deliberations. Notably, he addresses the controversial subjects of acquittals and the early release of prisoners. Although acquittals are often seen as a failure of international justice, Judge Meron argues that legal principle must come before any extraneous purpose, however desirable that purpose may be. Finally, the book looks ahead at the challenges facing the future of international justice and accountability, and discusses the all-important question: does international criminal justice work?

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0192608622

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Standing Up for Justice

The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes

By: Theodor Meron

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The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes

By: Theodor Meron

Judge Theodor Meron addresses the key questions facing the international criminal justice system, drawing on two decades of experience as an international judge and a distinguished academic career. He provides insights into judicial independence and the principle of fairness in trying cases before international criminal courts and tribunals.

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0198863438

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War Crimes Law Comes of Age

Essays

By: Theodor Meron

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War Crimes Law Comes of Age

Essays

By: Theodor Meron

Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia

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0198268564

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The Making of International Criminal Justice

A View from the Bench: Selected Speeches

By: Theodor Meron

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The Making of International Criminal Justice

A View from the Bench: Selected Speeches

By: Theodor Meron

There has been a quiet revolution over the course of the past quarter century in the prosecution of individuals for war crimes before international courts. Until recently, and with a few notable exceptions in the wake of World War II, violations of the laws of war and international humanitarian law were addressed primarily as claims between states. However, this approach has changed radically in just the last twenty years, as the international community has increasingly accepted the idea of individual criminal responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law. The International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda have played a key role in this transformation and, as the trailblazers for a growing number of new international or hybrid criminal courts, in establishing the field of international criminal justice and encouraging the national prosecution of war crimes. Understanding the Tribunals' origins, their ground-breaking jurisprudence, and how they have addressed critical legal and practical challenges is essential to understanding both the revolution that has occurred over the past twenty years and how international criminal law will change and grow in the years ahead. As a leading scholar on humanitarian law, past President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and Appeals Judge for both the Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals, Theodor Meron has observed and influenced the development of international criminal law as it has evolved from a mostly academic exercise to a cornerstone of the new international legal order. In this collection of speeches delivered during his first decade on the bench, he offers an insightful overview of the foundations of international criminal law as well as a unique, insider's perspective on the challenges faced by international criminal tribunals, their creation of a corpus of substantive and procedural law regarding everything from sentencing and self-representation to the law of genocide and the protection of prisoners of war, the contributions of other international courts, and the responsibilities of international jurists. Judge Meron's personal reflections and unparalleled experience in international criminal justice make this volume as rewarding for experts as it is for the general public.

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OUP Oxford

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0191648663

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Bloody Constraint

War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron

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Bloody Constraint

War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron

War is a major theme in Shakespeare's plays. Aside from its dramatic appeal, it provided him with a context in which his characters, steeped in the ideals of chivalry, could discuss such concepts as honor, courage, patriotism, and justice. Well aware of the decline of chivalry in his own era, Shakespeare gave his characters lines calling for civilized behavior, mercy, humanitarian principles, and moral responsibility. In this remarkable new book, eminent legal scholar Theodor Meron looks at contemporary international humanitarian law and rules for the conduct of war through the lens of Shakespeare's plays and discerns chivalry's influence there. The book comes as a response to the question of whether the world has lost anything by having a system of law based on the Hague and Geneva conventions. Meron contends that, despite the foolishness and vanity of its most extreme manifestations, chivalry served as a customary law that restrained and humanized the conflicts of the generally chaotic and brutal Middle Ages. It had the advantage of resting on the sense that rules arise naturally out of societies, their armed forces, and their rulers on the basis of experience. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic settings, Meron considers the ways in which law, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare's plays to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. Thus he illustrates the literary genealogy of such modern international humanitarian concerns as the treatment of prisoners and of noncombatants and accountability for war crimes, showing that the chivalric legacy has not been lost entirely. Fresh and insightful, Bloody Constraint will interest scholars of international law, lovers of Shakespeare, and anyone interested in the history of war.

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0198028792

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Bloody Constraint : War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law

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War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law

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0195349407

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Bloody Constraint

War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron

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War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

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Chivalry, one of Shakespeare's central themes, retains its pertinence and topicality in our rules for international humanitarian law and the conduct of war. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic realms, Professor Meron considers the ways in which law, chivalry, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. In doing so, he illustrates the literary genealogy of such contemporary international humanitarian concerns as the treatment of prisoners and of women and accountability for war crimes.

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0195144066

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The Making of International Criminal Justice

A View from the Bench: Selected Speeches

By: Theodor Meron

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The Making of International Criminal Justice

A View from the Bench: Selected Speeches

By: Theodor Meron

Bringing together Judge Meron's most important speeches in one volume, this book provides an insider's account of the development of international criminal law, humanitarian law, and human rights. Judge Meron, one of the most respected and admired figures in international law, also gives his vision of the role of the international judge.

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0199608938

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War Crimes Law Comes of Age

Essays

By: Theodor Meron

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Essays

By: Theodor Meron

Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia

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0198268564

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Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law

By: Theodor Meron

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Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law

By: Theodor Meron

Although the protection of human rights has seen a rapid growth in many areas, little attention has been paid in scholarly literature to the place of human rights in the discipline of international law. This book is an attempt to fill that gap. The inquiry is divided into two principal areas of discussion. Firstly, it looks at the relationship of human rights and humanitarian norms with customary law. Secondly, it concerns itself with the relationship of human rights and humanitarian norms with the law of state responsibility. The author examines how the contemporary human rights and humanitarian law meshes with the general principles of international law and particularly with the principles governing the international responsibility of States. The author clarifies the status of international human rights and humanitarian norms in public international law, and examines the sources, evidence, and process of creation of such rights.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0198257457

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Human Rights in Internal Strife

Their International Protection

By: Theodor Meron

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Human Rights in Internal Strife

Their International Protection

By: Theodor Meron

B. Rights and obligations

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Cambridge University Press

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0949009040

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9780949009043

Bloody Constraint : War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law

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War and Chivalry in Shakespeare

By: Theodor Meron Charles L. Denison Professor of Law New York University School of Law

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Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law

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