The Global Prosecution of Core Crimes under International Law
This book deals with the prosecution of core crimes and constitutes the first comprehensive analysis of the horizontal and vertical systems of enforcement of international criminal law and of their inter-relationship. It provides a global jurisprudential
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Christopher Soler
The Global Prosecution of Core Crimes under International Law
Christopher Soler
The Global Prosecution of Core Crimes under International Law
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Christopher Soler Faculty of Laws University of Malta Valletta, Malta
ISBN 978-94-6265-334-4 ISBN 978-94-6265-335-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-335-1
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To the wrongly convicted and imprisoned, in the hope they would be freed; to all victims who still await criminal justice, in the belief it shall prevail; and to all journalists who, at the risk of losing their own lives, courageously expose such sad stories.
Foreword
There are several ways by means of which one could read the book by Dr. Christopher Soler entitled The Global Prosecution of Core Crimes under International Law. The book adopts a multi-layered approach in which every part is both autonomous and functional to the larger design. This outcome may correspond to the author’s own intellectual maturation while preparing his doctoral dissertation, but has the distinct advantage that the reader can benefit both from each and every chapter on its own, as well as from the entirety of the book as a whole for a unitary vision. To this extent, the book can serve as a valuable frame of reference for jurists, judges, legal practitioners, academics and public administrators who work in the dynamic fields of international human rights law and international criminal law, more so because the book has a noticeable substantive law dimension and a marked procedural law perspective. Christopher Soler earned his Ph.D. from the prestigious University of Amsterdam, which degree led to this book, after conducting extensive research under the supervision of Prof. Harmen van der Wilt, whose guidance helped him deepen his reasoning relating to some delicate criminal responsibility issues in addition to various institutional matters revolving around the very “architecture” of international criminal justice as a system per
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