Denver Journal of International Law and Policy articles from January 1997

Denver Journal of International Law and Policy archives from January 1997

Committee Report on Jurisdiction, Definition of Crimes, and Complementarity.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... 1. In November 1996, members of the International Law Association Committee on a Permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) met in conjunction with other members of the human rights community and experts on the proposed ICC over a two day...

Jurisdiction, Definition of Crimes, and Triggering Mechanisms.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION A. General Some have said that the potential creation of an international criminal court "could transform the United Nations into a third generation international organization capable of meeting the new...

Complementarity.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... This report provides a preliminary analysis of the complementarity provisions of the most recent International Law Committee (ILC) Draft Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC). This report is intended to stimulate discussion of the...

Cooperation with National Systems.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... This report concerns the provisions of the International Law Committee (ILC) Draft Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) regarding cooperation between the ICC and national jurisdictions. The comments of the Working Group are...

A Critique of the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... In his historic opening statement, Robert Jackson, the U.S. Chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg said, "we must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these...

General Rules of Criminal Law.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... In discussions of the problems connected with the establishment of an international criminal court, attention has naturally turned to the question of the nature of the law to be applied by the proposed court. In Europe, down through the...

Nullum Crimen and Related Claims.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... Unlike many domestic statutes, international instruments setting forth international criminal proscriptions often lack detailed definitional orientations or elements of crimes. Penalties are rarely set forth, the word "crime" often does not...

Organization of the International Criminal Court: Administrative and Financial Issues.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION 1. A permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) has progressed from a dream to the threshold of reality in a span of time few thought possible.(1) A substantial amount of work on the ICC's Statute has been done....

Observations Concerning the 1997-98 Preparatory Committee's Work.(Report of the International Law Association)
January 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION 1. In 1989, Trinidad and Tobago proposed the creation of an International Criminal Court (ICC) to the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) to aid in the fight against narcotics trafficking. This proposal revived...

Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Wealth.
January 1, 1997... FUKUYAMA, FRANCIS, TRUST: The Free Press, New York, NY (1995). ($24.50); ISBN 0-02-910976-0; 457pp. (hardcover). When people ask me where I stand on the issue of fences and neighbors in my poem "Mending Wall", I simply point out to them...

The Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
January 1, 1997... M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI AND PETER MANIKAS, Transnational Publishers, Irvington, NY (1996); ($135.00), ISBN 1-57105-004-3; 1094 pp. (hardcover). If the title of Professor Bassiouni's book states a relatively modest subject -- the law of the...

Small Islands, Big Politics: The Tonbs and Abu Musa in the Persian Gulf.
January 1, 1997... HOOSHANG AMIRAHMADI (Ed.), St. Martin's Press, New York, NY (1996); ($45.00); ISBN 0-312-15910-2; 200 pp. (hardcover). Despite their small size and lack of natural resources, the islands of Abu Musa and the Tonbs have been the subject of big...

European Environmental Law: A Comparative Perspective.
January 1, 1997... GERD WINTER (Ed.), Dartmouth Publishing Company, Brookfield, Vermont (1996); ($39.95); ISBN 1-85521-564-0; 443 pp. (paperback). Environmental law continues to expand internationally. European Environmental Law: A Comparative Perspective...

The Europeanization of America: What Every American Should Know About the European Union.
January 1, 1997... THOMAS C. FISCHER, Carolina Academic Press, Durham, N.C. (1995); ($49.95); ISBN 089089-751-4342 pp. (hardcover). This book provides a helpful understanding to the legal and factual basis for the formation and operation of the European Union....

Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India.
January 1, 1997... RATNA KAPUR AND BRENDA COSSMAN, Sage Publishing; Thousand Oaks, California (1996); ($28.00); ISBN 0-8039-9815-3; 352 pp. (hardcover). Subversive Sites examines the contours of law in light of the feminist struggle for social change. The...