Nr. 2/07 Robert Cryer: Taylor, Hussein, Milošević, Will the Leaders Face Justice?
Robert Cryer – 2007
In the last fifteen years or so, there has been a swing to international criminal justice that is little short of amazing, in the literal sense of the word. One hundred years ago, in the Second Hague Conference, the idea was not even considered.1 In 1993, when I first became interested in international criminal law, works on international criminal courts could be found in bookshops, unfortunately sharing shelves with books like the Lord of the Rings and other works of fancy and imagination. Few could, and even fewer would, have disagreed with that doyen of international lawyers (or at least British ones) Ian Brownlie, when he said in 1990, that “in spite of extensive consideration of the problem in committees of the General Assembly, the likelihood of setting up an international criminal court is very remote”.2
Autor: Robert Cryer
Jahr: 2007
Sprache: Englisch
Vorschau:
In the last fifteen years or so, there has been a swing to international criminal justice that is little short of amazing, in the literal sense of the word. One hundred years ago, in the Second Hague Conference, the idea was not even considered. In 1993, when I first became interested in international criminal law, works on international criminal courts could be found in bookshops, unfortunately sharing shelves with books like the Lord of the Rings and other works of fancy and imagination. Few could, and even fewer would, have disagreed with that doyen of international lawyers (or at least British ones) Ian Brownlie, when he said in 1990, that “in spite of extensive consideration of the problem in committees of the General Assembly, the likelihood of setting up an international criminal court is very remote”.