Why Punish Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities?: Purposes of Punishment in International Criminal Law (ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108465897 ISBN 13: 9781108465892

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Examines the purpose of international punishment and how different theories of punishment influence the practice of the International Criminal Court.

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About the Authors

Florian Jeßberger is Professor of Law at Universität Hamburg, where he holds the Chair in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, International Criminal Law, and Modern Legal History. Before joining Universität Hamburg in 2010, he was the Lichtenberg Professor of International and Comparative Criminal Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has held various visiting fellowships, inter alia, in Oxford, Ferrara, and Naples, and is a Member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

Julia Geneuss is Assistant Professor of Law at Universität Hamburg and currently a Feodor Lynen Scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She holds a Dr iur. from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a LL.M. from New York University School of Law. She has been awarded several prizes for her doctoral dissertation on the prosecution of crimes under international law in Germany, in particular under the principle of universal jurisdiction. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108465897
• ISBN 13: 9781108465892
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412
• Editor: Jeßberger Florian