Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy

The fall of dictatorial regimes and the eruption of destructive civil conflicts around the world have led to calls for holding individuals accountable for human rights atrocities. This book offers a comprehensive study of the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It provides a searching analysis of the principal crimes under the law of nations, such as genocide and crimesagainst humanity and an appraisal of the most important prosecutorial and other mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice. This fully updated new edition also contains expanded coverage of the increasing numbers of international criminal trials including the cases ofBosnia, Serbia, and East Timor. It also explores individual accountability for terrorist acts and accountability for acts undertaken in the name of counter-terrorism policy, and provides expanded coverage of aggression and crimes against peace.