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Fact-finding without facts : = the uncertain evidentiary foundations of international criminal convictions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fact-finding without facts :/ Nancy Amoury Combs.
Reminder of title:	the uncertain evidentiary foundations of international criminal convictions /
Author:	Combs, Nancy A.,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Evidence, Criminal (International law) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511760259
ISBN:	9780511760259 (ebook)

Fact-finding without facts : = the uncertain evidentiary foundations of international criminal convictions /
Combs, Nancy A.,1965-

Fact-finding without facts :the uncertain evidentiary foundations of international criminal convictions /Nancy Amoury Combs. - 1 online resource (xi, 420 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The evidence supporting international criminal convictions -- Questions unanswered : international witnesses and the information unconveyed -- The educational, linguistic, and cultural impediments to accurate fact-finding at the international tribunals -- Of inconsistencies and their explanations -- Perjury : the counternarrative -- Expectations unfulfilled : the consequences of the fact-finding impediments -- Casual indifference : the trial chambers' treatment of testimonial deficiencies -- Organizational liability revived : the pro-conviction bias explained -- Help needed : practical suggestions and procedural reforms to improve fact-finding accuracy -- Assessing the status quo : they are not doing what they say they are doing but is what they are doing worth doing?

Fact-Finding Without Facts explores international criminal fact-finding - empirically, conceptually, and normatively. After reviewing thousands of pages of transcripts from various international criminal tribunals, the author reveals that international criminal trials are beset by numerous and severe fact-finding impediments that substantially impair the tribunals' ability to determine who did what to whom. These fact-finding impediments have heretofore received virtually no publicity, let alone scholarly treatment, and they are deeply troubling not only because they raise grave concerns about the accuracy of the judgments currently being issued but because they can be expected to similarly impair the next generation of international trials that will be held at the International Criminal Court. After setting forth her empirical findings, the author considers their conceptual and normative implications. The author concludes that international criminal tribunals purport a fact-finding competence that they do not possess and, as a consequence, base their judgments on a less precise, more amorphous method of fact-finding than they publicly acknowledge.

ISBN: 9780511760259 (ebook)Subjects--Corporate Names:

579225
International Criminal Court.
Subjects--Topical Terms:

1105485
Evidence, Criminal (International law)

LC Class. No.: KZ7422 / .C66 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 345/.06

Fact-finding without facts : = the uncertain evidentiary foundations of international criminal convictions /
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