Defendants and Victims in International Criminal Justice

This volume considers a variety of key issues pertaining to the rights of defendants and victims at International Criminal Courts (ICTs) and explores how best to balance and enhance the rights of both in order to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of international criminal proceedings.

Autorentext

Dr Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Pluricourts, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.

Dr Joanna Nicholson, Pluricourts, University of Oslo, Norway.

Inhalt

Foreword Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Føllesdal;

Chapter 1 Introduction;

Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo and Joanna Nicholson;

Chapter 2 The Content of Internationally Recognised Human Rights under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court;

Sergii Masol;

Chapter 3 For Better or Worse: The Rights of Defendants and Victims before the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples' Rights;

Oliver Windridge;

Chapter 4 Balancing Prejudice: Fair Trial Rights and International Procedural Decisions Relating to Evidence;

Rogier Bartels;

Chapter 5 UNSC sanctions regimes and the ICC: arguments against cooperation for arrest and investigative purposes in light of defendants' rights;

Alice Riccardi;

Chapter 6 The Presence of the Accused During Trial: Bridging the Gap Between Mandatory Presence and In Absentia Trials;

Talita de Souza Dias and Tsvetelina van Bentham;

Chapter 7 Useful in theory, useless in practice? The right of the defence to challenge the jurisdiction of international criminal courts and tribunals;

Michail Vagias;

Chapter 8 The ICTY and the balancing act: reconciliation as rehabilitation;

Dejana Radisavljevic;

Chapter 9 The Politics of Victim Participation in the International Criminal Court: Does politically motivated victim participation have an impact on the legitimacy of the proceedings?;

Kirsten Bowman;

Chapter 10 Protecting victims who testify before the ICC: tensions and balances with the defendants' right to a fair trial;

Rossella Pulvirenti;

Chapter 11 The Legal Effect of a Reparations Order and the Rights of those Persons Subject to it;

Anthony Abato;

Chapter 12 Final Reflections on Defendants and Victims in International Criminal;

Proceedings

Juan Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo and Joanna Nicholson;