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The Dawn of a Discipline
The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.
Debating Sex and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Spain
This book explores the popular and elite debates over the creation of a two-sex model of human bodies in eighteenth-century Spain.
Prosecuting and Punishing Multi-Offenders in the EU
This book elaborates on the rules governing the prosecution and sentencing of multi-offenders. The term ‘multi-offender’ is used for an offender that has committed a series of offences (either in one single act or in different acts); hence the addition of ‘multi’ in ‘multi-offender’. A crucial element thereto is that the whole series of offences – which make the offender a multi-offender – has been committed before being subject to a final conviction. A comparative EU-study was conducted, focussing on the rules governing multi-offenders within different EU Member States. It reveals that this type of offenders challenge both the legislator and the prosecution and judges: when ...
Punishment, Restorative Justice and the Morality of Law
Critics take the unclear status of restorative justice practices, along with their vagueness in meaning and purpose, as a clear invitation to a fundamental questioning of the legitimacy of these practices. Their supporters consider the experiment of restorative justice as a platform for reforming penal institutions and for rethinking the legitimacy of orthodox legal reasoning. Within the framework of a rechtsstaat, a democratic state governed by fundamental rights and by the rule of law, both issues of legitimacy lead not only to reflection on concepts such as restoration, punishment, or on such notions as harm and wrong. Questioning the legitimacy both of restorative justice practices and o...
The Birth of the New Justice
A history of the attempts to introduce international criminal courts and new international criminal laws after World War I to repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide.
Courts and Terrorism
Since ancient times, terror tactics have been used to achieve political ends and likely will continue into the foreseeable future. Preserving national security and the safety of civilian populations while maintaining democratic principles and respecting human rights requires a delicate balancing act. In democracies, monitoring that balance typically falls to the courts. Courts and Terrorism examines how judiciaries in nine separate nations have responded, not just to the current wave of Al Qaeda threats, but also to narco-trafficking, domestic terrorism and organized crime syndicates. Terrorism is not a new phenomenon, and even though the reactions have varied significantly, common themes emerge. This volume discusses eleven case studies and analyzes the experiences of these various nations in their battles with terrorism to reveal the judicial quandary for democratic governance and the rule of law in the twenty-first century.
Honor
What is honor? Is it the same as reputation? Or is it rather a sentiment? Is it a character trait, like integrity? Or is it simply a concept too vague or incoherent to be fully analyzed? In the first sustained comparative analysis of this elusive notion, Frank Stewart writes that none of these ideas is correct. Drawing on information about Western ideas of honor from sources as diverse as medieval Arthurian romances, Spanish dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the writings of German jurists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and comparing the European ideas with the ideas of a non-Western society—the Bedouin—Stewart argues that honor must be understood as a right, basically a right to respect. He shows that by understanding honor this way, we can resolve some of the paradoxes that have long troubled scholars, and can make sense of certain institutions (for instance the medieval European pledge of honor) that have not hitherto been properly understood. Offering a powerful new way to understand this complex notion, Honor has important implications not only for the social sciences but also for the whole history of European sensibility.
Informe de la Comisión Nacional de la Verdad de Brasil
El documento que aquí se presenta tuvo su origen en la Ley 12.528 aprobada por el Congreso Nacional de Brasil y sancionada por la entonces presidenta Dilma Rouseff el 18 de noviembre de 2011. Unos meses más tarde, en una solemne ceremonia en el Palacio del Planalto y en presencia de los expresidentes que lideraron la nueva etapa democrática que se abrió en Brasil a partir de 1985 –José Sarney, Fernando Collor de Mello, Fernando Henrique Cardoso y Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Dilma Rousseff constituyó oficialmente la Comisión Nacional de la Verdad encargada de esclarecer las violaciones contra los derechos humanos cometidas por agentes y funcionarios del Estado brasileño entre 1946 y 1985, particularmente durante el régimen militar que gobernó el país durante 21 años, con la convicción «de que Brasil merecía la verdad, para las nuevas generaciones y, sobre todo, para aquellos que perdieron parientes y amigos». Después de casi veinte meses de trabajo el Informe resultante –entregado el 10 de diciembre de 2014 por D. Pedro Dallari a la presidenta– constituye una pieza clave para el conocimiento de la Historia del Brasil contemporáneo.
