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Legality Matters = Crimes Against Humanity and the Problems and Promise of the Prohibition on Other Inhumane Acts /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Legality Matters/ by Gillian MacNeil.
Reminder of title:	Crimes Against Humanity and the Problems and Promise of the Prohibition on Other Inhumane Acts /
Author:	MacNeil, Gillian.
Description:	XIII, 196 p. 2 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	International criminal law. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-443-3
ISBN:	9789462654433

Legality Matters = Crimes Against Humanity and the Problems and Promise of the Prohibition on Other Inhumane Acts /
MacNeil, Gillian.

Legality MattersCrimes Against Humanity and the Problems and Promise of the Prohibition on Other Inhumane Acts /[electronic resource] :by Gillian MacNeil. - 1st ed. 2021. - XIII, 196 p. 2 illus.online resource. - International Criminal Justice Series,282352-6726 ;. - International Criminal Justice Series,3.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Theoretical Underpinnings: Understanding the Prohibition on Retroactive Criminal Law -- Chapter 3. The Prohibition on Retroactive Criminal Law in International Criminal Law -- Chapter 4. Crimes Against Humanity: Introduction, Development and Acceptance -- Chapter 5. Other Inhumane Acts: Development and Critique -- Chapter 6. A New Way Forward: Advocating a Fullerian Approach to Other Inhumane Acts -- Index.

This book examines the way international criminal courts and tribunals have interpreted the crimes against humanity proscription of other inhumane acts. This clause is consistently used in spite of the long list of more specific offences forbidden as crimes against humanity. The volume proposes that the current approach is based on a misunderstanding of the nature of the clause. Properly understood, the clause is an invitation to courts to create and apply retroactive criminal laws. This leads to a problem. A prohibition on the use of retroactive criminal laws, one which admits no exceptions, is deeply embedded in international law. The author argues that it is time to revisit the assumption that retroactive criminal laws can never be deployed in a fair legal system. Drawing lessons from an exploration on the way the prohibition on retroactive laws is applied in practice, she proposes a new framework for understanding the clause proscribing the commission of other inhumane acts. This book will be of relevance to anyone interested in international criminal law or criminal law theory. Gillian MacNeil is Assistant Professor at Robson Hall, the Faculty of Law of the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

ISBN: 9789462654433

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-94-6265-443-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

784835
International criminal law.

LC Class. No.: KZ7000-7500

Dewey Class. No.: 345

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