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“mark osiel”

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  • The Right to Do Wrong

    Morality and the Limits of Law

    by Mark Osiel ...
    Common morality—in the form of shame, outrage, and stigma—has always been society’s first line of defense against ethical transgressions. Social mores crucially complement the law, Mark Osiel shows, sparing us from oppressive formal regulation.Much of what we could do, we shouldn’t—and we don’t. We have a free-speech right to be offensive, but we know we will face outrage in response. We may ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Mass Atrocity

    by Mark Osiel ...
    Genocide, crimes against humanity, and the worst war crimes are possible only when the state or other organisations mobilise and co-ordinate the efforts of many people. Responsibility for mass atrocity is always widely shared, often by thousands. Yet criminal law, with its liberal underpinnings, prefers to blame particular individuals for isolated acts. Is such law, therefore, constitutionally ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • Life After Life

    A Guildford Four Memoir

    by Paddy Armstrong, Mary-Elaine Tynan ...
    Paddy Armstrong was one of four people falsely convicted of The Guildford Bombing in 1975. He spent fifteen years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Today, as a husband and father, life is wonderfully ordinary, but the memory of his ordeal lives on. Here, for the first time and with unflinching candour, he lays bare the experiences of those years and their aftermath. Life after Life is a ... Read more

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  • Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change

    by Bronwyn Leebaw ...
    How should state-sponsored atrocities be judged and remembered? This controversial question animates contemporary debates on transitional justice and reconciliation. This book reconsiders the legacies of two institutions that transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice. Whereas the Nuremberg Trials exemplified the promise of legalism and international criminal justice, South Africa ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed: American Soldiers on Trial

    by Christopher Graveline, Michael Clemens ...
    On April 28, 2004, 60 Minutes II broadcast the now-infamous photos of prisoner abuse by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. The news quickly spread worldwide, undermining the U.S. presence in Iraq.Despite several Department of Defense investigations and eleven courts-martial convictions, important questions remain about the events at Abu Ghraib. Who are these soldiers? How involved were top ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Access to Asylum

    International Refugee Law and the Globalisation of Migration Control

    by Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen ...
    Series Book 77 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    Is there still a right to seek asylum in a globalised world? Migration control has increasingly moved to the high seas or the territory of transit and origin countries, and is now commonly outsourced to private actors. Under threat of financial penalties airlines today reject any passenger not in possession of a valid visa, and private contractors are used to run detention centres and man border ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Forging a Convention for Crimes against Humanity

    Edited by Leila Nadya Sadat ...
    Crimes against humanity were one of the three categories of crimes elaborated in the Nuremberg Charter. However, unlike genocide and war crimes, they were never set out in a comprehensive international convention. This book represents an effort to complete the Nuremberg legacy by filling this gap. It contains a complete text of a proposed convention on crimes against humanity in English and in ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Amnesties, Pardons and Transitional Justice

    Spain's Pact of Forgetting

    by Roldan Jimeno ...
    Series series Transitional Justice
    In a consolidated democracy, amnesties and pardons do not sit well with equality and a separation of powers; however, these measures have proved useful in extreme circumstances, such as transitions from dictatorships to democracies, as has occurred in Greece, Portugal and Spain. Focusing on Spain, this book analyses the country's transition, from the antecedents from 1936 up to the present, within ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Secret Trials and Executions

    Military Tribunals and the Threat to Democracy

    by Barbara Olshansky, Center For Constitutional Rights ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Since the attacks of September 11th, there has been a sweeping revision of U.S. immigration laws, foreign intelligence gathering operations, and domestic law enforcement procedures. While aimed at countering terrorism and bringing to justice those individuals who are responsible for carrying out acts of terror against the U.S., many of these measures also involve a profound curtailment of our ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Death Penalty

    A Worldwide Perspective

    by Roger Hood CBE QC (Hon) DCL FBA, Carolyn Hoyle ...
    The 4th edition of this authoritative study of the death penalty, now written jointly with Carolyn Hoyle, brings up-to-date developments in the movement to abolish the death penalty worldwide. It draws on Roger Hood's experience as consultant to the United Nations for the UN Secretary General's five-yearly surveys of capital punishment and on the latest information from non-governmental ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Shadow Lives

    The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

    by Victoria Brittain, Marina Warner ...
    Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the '9/11 wars': their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'.A disturbing ... Read more

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  • The Crime of Aggression in International Criminal Law

    Historical Development, Comparative Analysis and Present State

    by Sergey Sayapin ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Since after the Second World War, the crime of aggression is – along with genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes – a “core crime” under international law. However, despite a formal recognition of aggression as a matter of international criminal law and the reinforcement of the international legal regulation of the use of force by States, numerous international armed conflicts occurred ... Read more

    $89.09 USD