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New Horizons in International Criminal Law. Edited by M. Cherif Bassiouni. Published by the International Association of Penal Law, 1985. Pp. 156.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

William Sumner Kenney
William Sumner Kenney*
Affiliation:
Of the District of Columbia Bar
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 82 , Issue 2 , April 1988 , pp. 413 - 416
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1988

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1 The institute is located in Syracuse, Sicily and is a public foundation with academic purposes. It was founded in 1972 to provide specialized postgraduate educational and training programs and to conduct other scholarly activities in the criminal justice sciences. It was developed as a joint effort of the International Association of Penal Law, which is the scientific sponsor, and of the City, Province and Chamber of Commerce of Syracuse and the Sicilian Region, which are the financial sponsors.

2 He indicates that these materials are already finding their way into academic and scholarly publications.

3 A full report of his research may be found in Bassiouni, M. C., International Crimes: Digest/Index of International Instruments, 1815–1985 (1986)Google Scholar. Reviewed at 80 AJIL 998 (1986).

4 The draft was submitted to the sixth UN congress in Caracas (1980) and is under consideration by the International Law Commission as part of the work on the Draft Code of Offences Against the Peace and Security of Mankind. See UN Doc. A/CN.4/SR.1823, at 3 (1984).

5 With reference to the codification model, he cites the 1975 United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for Treatment of Prisoners as establishing a viable model for future expansion.

6 28 U.S.C. §1782 (1982).

7 Prepared by Professor Mueller and submitted to a preparatory congress for the Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders.