| 书目名称 | Universal Jurisdiction: The Sierra Leone Profile |
| 编辑 | Justice Bankole Thompson |
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| 概述 | Written by a former Presiding Judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.Provides an insight into the existing state of law in Sierra Leone.Pinpoints the deficiencies in the law and factors inhibitin |
| 丛书名称 | International Criminal Justice Series |
| 图书封面 |  |
| 描述 | .The doctrine of universal jurisdiction has evolved throughout modern times in the context of global criminal justice as a paramount agent of combating impunity emanating from international criminality. Sierra Leone, as a member of the international community and the United Nations, has, in recent times, been a pioneer in the progressive application and development of international criminal law in the African region. Despite this role, the country’s profile, both in terms of the incorporation and application of the doctrine of universal jurisdiction, is deficient in several major respects falling far short of its dual international obligation not to provide safe havens from justice for perpetrators of international crimes and to combat impunity from such criminogenic acts. Hence, a compelling reason for the author to write this book was to provide a seminal scholarly work on the subject articulating the existing state of the law in Sierra Leone and highlighting the deficiencies in the law and factors inhibiting the exercise of universal jurisdiction in this UN member state. It was also to propose necessary substantive and procedural law reforms in the state’s jurisprudence on t |
| 出版日期 | Book 2015 |
| 关键词 | Criminal Justice; Human Rights; Humanitarian Law; Special Court for Sierra Leone; Universal Jurisdiction |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-054-1 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-94-6265-054-1Series ISSN 2352-6718 Series E-ISSN 2352-6726 |
| issn_series | 2352-6718 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE |
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