The author discusses the development of international criminal law from pre-Nuremberg and Tokyo trials period to present day. The inquiry tracks the International Law Commission's work on the Code of Crimes Against the Peace and Security of Mankind and the Statute for a Permanent International Criminal Court. After and introduction, which charts out the scope of the book and gives some preliminary information on the complexity of international criminal law, the book is divided into three parts. Part 1, captioned, “
Developments in Codification,” details the changes to the 1991 and the 1996 draft Codes (including the inclusion and omissions of certain crimes), with a chapter on the issue of aggression, threats of aggression, intervention and colonial domination; another on serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, including genocide, apartheid, systematic or mass violations of human rights, war crimes and mass rape; and, a third chapter on other crimes, such as international terrorism, drug-trafficking and crimes against UN personnel. Part 2, captioned, “Developments in Implementation,” deals with the normative hierarchy in international law and its relation to individual criminal responsibility; the implementation of international criminal law through municipal jurisdiction; and the implementation of international criminal law through international criminal tribunals – which traces the history from pre-WWII, Nuremberg and Tokyo Tribunals, the tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the prospective of a permanent ICC. Part 3, “future Prospects,” discusses the emergence of a system of international criminal law. The book also has an annex with the 1191 ILC Draft Code, the 1993 and 1994 statutes for the tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, respectively, the 1995 UN G.A. Resolution A/50/46, Creating a Preparatory Committee on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, and the 1996 ILC Draft Code. Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-478) and an index.
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