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Defeat of the Sovereign Immunity Defense for Crimes of Genocide and the Trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein

by Michael J. Kelly (Author)
©2005 Textbook XX, 274 Pages
Law, Economics & Management
Series: Teaching Texts in Law and Politics, Volume 41

Summary

This work tracks two dynamics: the evolution of genocide into an international crime and the erosion of sovereign immunity as a defense to prosecution. Both dynamics meet in the trials of Slobodan Milosevic for the Bosnian genocide at Srebrenica and Saddam Hussein for the Kurdish and Marsh Arab genocides. While one despot meets his fate before an international tribunal, the other will face justice before a domestic court of his own countrymen. Neither can hide behind the shield of sovereignty – dictators now have nowhere to hide.

Details

Pages
XX, 274
Year
2005
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820478364
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820478357
Language
English
Keywords
Immunity /foreign states Milosevic, Slobodan (Politiker) Prozess Internationales Strafgericht zur Verfolgung von V International offense International criminal court
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2005. XX, 274 pp., 12 ill., 3 tables

Biographical notes

Michael J. Kelly (Author)

The Author: Michael J. Kelly is Associate Professor of International Law at Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his B.A. in political science and J.D. from Indiana University, and his LL.M. in international law from Georgetown University. He is most recently co-author with Raneta Lawson Mack of Equal Justice in the Balance: America’s Legal Responses to the Emerging Terrorist Threat (2004).

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