Contemporary Challenges to Criminal Justice Liber Amicorum for Ralph Henham
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Paul Behrens is Reader in International Law at the University of Edinburgh, UK.The most topical, complex and challenging issues of contemporary criminal justice are dealt with in a single volume! The fil rouge that binds them, the source of inspiration for each contribution, is the scientific activity of a great scholar, to whom we all must be grateful for his unparalleled contribution to criminal science.
Professor Grazia Mannozzi, Director of the Study Centre on Restorative Justice and Mediation (CesSGReM) University of Insubria (Como, Italy)
A beautiful and rich collection of essays on some of the most salient challenges in transnational and international criminal justice today, fully worthy of Ralph Henham’s inspirational life and work.
Professor Jan Wouters, Jean Monnet Chair ad personam; Director, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies – Institute for International Law (Leuven, Belgium)
This significant collection brings together experts from different legal systems and disciplines in conversation about the challenges and aspirations of criminal justice. It is essential reading for those committed to situating criminal law in its comparative context, both nationally and internationally. The quality and breadth of its contributions make this collection a fitting tribute to the influential scholarship of Ralph Henham.
Professor Sarah Williams, UNSW Sydney & Australian Human Rights Institute
Criminal law and justice for international crimes intersect in ways that are critical to the maintenance of peace and security and for the prevention of mass atrocities. Growth of interest in these areas also present significant challenges, and this book will undoubtedly contribute to just and fair standards to confront them. It is, for that very reason, a magnificent tribute to a great scholar.
Professor Juan E Méndez American University Washington College of Law; Faculty Director of the Anti-Torture Initiative; Member of the International Commission of Jurists; Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide (2004–2007); UN Special Rapporteur on Torture (2010–2016)
This study provides a critical examination of seminal issues within the main areas of criminal justice: its theoretical framework, domestic and comparative criminal justice, transnational and international criminal law.
Exploring some of the most interesting challenges arising in these fields, it examines the impact of ‘public morality’ on sentencing policy, murder and the mandatory life sentence, genocide and the notion of magnitude and incitement to terrorism. Taking an approach that is fully integrated in contemporary criminal justice scholarship, it offers a diverse and expert perspective. With a comprehensive introduction and conclusion drawing the various strands together, it offers a rigorous, coherent overview of the key issues in play in contemporary international criminal justice. This diversity and expertise ensures its appeal to a large audience of students, scholars and practitioners of criminal justice around the world.
Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law
Criminal law had long been regarded as the preserve of national legal systems, and comparative research in criminal law for a long time had something of an academic ivory tower quality. However, in the past 15 years it has been transformed into an increasingly, and moreover practically, relevant subject of study for international and comparative lawyers. This can be attributed to numerous factors, such as the establishment of ad hoc international criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court, as well as to developments within the EU, the UN and other international organisations. There is a myriad of initiatives related to tackling terrorism, money laundering, organised crime, people trafficking and the drugs trade, and the international 'war' on terror. Criminal law is being used to address global or regional problems, often across the borders of fundamentally different legal systems, only one of which is the traditional divide between common and civil law approaches. It is therefore no longer solely a matter for domestic lawyers. The need exists for a global approach which encompasses comparative and international law.
Responding to this development this new series will include books on a wide range of topics, including studies of international law, EU law, the work of specific international tribunals, and comparative studies of national systems of criminal law. Given that the different systems to a large extent operate based on the idiosyncracies of the peoples and states that have created them, the series will also welcome pertinent historical, criminological and socio-legal research into these issues.
Editorial Committee:
Cheah Wui Ling (NUS, Singapore)
Caroline Fournet (Groningen, The Netherlands)
Rachel Killean, (QUB, Belfast)
Dawn Rothe (FAU, USA)
Liling Yue (Beijing, China)
Heike Jung (Saarbrücken, Germany)
Adel Ibrahim Maged (Cairo, Egypt)
Wolfgang Schomburg (Berlin, Germany)
Noha Aboueldahab (Brookings Institute, Doha)
Gleb I Bogush (HSE University, Russia)
Hector Olasolo (Universidad del Rosario, Colombia)
Leigh Swigart (Brandeis University, USA)
Sarah Williams (University of New South Wales, Australia)