Fair labelling and the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes at the international criminal tribunals / Hilmi M. Zawati ; Preface by Justice Teresa A. Doherty, CBE.

This scholarly legal work focuses on the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes under the statutes of the international criminal tribunals with reference to the principle of fair labelling. In this book Hilmi M. Zawati explains how the abstractness and lack of accurate description of gender-base...

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Main Author: Zawātī, Ḥilmī
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Summary:This scholarly legal work focuses on the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes under the statutes of the international criminal tribunals with reference to the principle of fair labelling. In this book Hilmi M. Zawati explains how the abstractness and lack of accurate description of gender-based crimes in the statutory laws of the international criminal tribunals and courts infringe the principle of fair labelling, lead to inconsistent verdicts and punishments, and cause inadequate prosecution of these crimes. This inquiry deals with gender-based crimes as a case study, and with fair labe.
Item Description:Revision of the author's thesis (D.C.L.) - McGill University, 2010, under title "Symbolic judgments or judging symbols : fair labelling and the dilemma of prosecuting gender-based crimes under the statutes of the international criminal tribunals."
(B) Broad Definitions and Un-Specificity of Gender-Based Crimes: Barriers to Justice.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxxiii, 228 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-220) and index.
ISBN:9780199357123
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Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.