The Principle of Legality in International and Comparative Criminal Law
by Kenneth S. GallantEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-12-23
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
This book fills a major gap in the scholarly literature concerning international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and human rights law. The principle of legality (non-retroactivity of crimes and punishments and related doctrines) is fundamental to criminal law and human rights law. Yet this is the first book-length study of the status of legality in international law - in international criminal law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. This is also the first book to survey legality/non-retroactivity in all national constitutions, developing the patterns of implementation of legality in the various legal systems (e.g., Common Law, Civil Law, Islamic Law, Asian Law) around the world. This is a necessary book for any scholar, practitioner, and library in the area of international, criminal, comparative, human rights, or international humanitarian law.
Table of Contents
| Legality in criminal law, its purposes, and its competitors | |
| A partial history to World War II | |
| Nuremberg, Tokyo, and other post-war cases | |
| Modern development of international human rights law: practice involving multilateral treaties and the universal declaration of human rights | |
| Modern comparative law development: national provisions concerning legality | |
| Legality in the modern international and internationalized criminal courts and tribunals | |
| Legality as a rule of customary international law today | |
| Conclusion: the endurance of legality in national and international criminal law | |
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