Taking Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seriously in International Criminal Law

AvEvelyne Schmid

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

Is the neglect of economic, social and cultural abuses in international criminal law a problem of positive international law or the result of choices made by lawyers involved in mechanisms such as criminal prosecutions or truth commissions? Evelyne Schmid explores this question via an assessment of the relationship between violations of economic, social and cultural rights and international crimes. Based on a thorough examination of the elements of international crimes, she demonstrates how a situation can simultaneously be described as a violation of economic, social and cultural rights and as an international crime. Against the background of the emerging debates on selectivity in international criminal law and the role of socio-economic and cultural abuses in transitional justice, she argues that international crimes overlapping with violations of economic, social and cultural rights deserve to be taken seriously, for much the same reasons as other international crimes.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-07-28
Mått:151 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Antal sidor:396
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107696556

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Evelyne Schmid is an associate professor of international law at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. She was previously based at the Universität Basel, Bangor University and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). She also acted as the project coordinator for the International Criminal Court's Legal Tools Project at TRIAL in Geneva.

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'A meticulous study that provides sound guidance to legal scholars and practitioners who have to consider when and how leaders incur personal responsibility under international criminal law for deliberately trampling on the economic and social rights of their people.' Jan Arno Hessbruegge, former Legal Advisor to the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Rethinking hierarchies of human rights in international criminal law; 3. Relating international crimes to ESCR violations; 4. Crimes against humanity revisited: from Nuremberg to Zimbabwe; 5. Four groups of war crimes and the forgotten trial of Gauleiter Greiser; 6. Genocide and the battles Raphael Lemkin did not lose; 7. Torture, slavery and other crimes overlapping with ESCR violations; 8. Corollaries of qualifying ESCR violations as international crimes; 9. Conclusions.