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Universal justice on trial: diverse states, universal crimes, varying practices.

Universal Jurisdiction over Core International Crimes

Law & Practice

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  • Hardcover

    660 pages

  • Release Date

    23 September 2025

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Summary

This timely book explores how the domestic courts of states across Europe, North America and Oceania have defined and applied their substantive laws in universal jurisdiction trials for core international crimes. It considers what ‘universal justice’ actually looks like in the national courtrooms of diverse states and probes the extent to which there is uniformity in the pursuit to punish universally condemned crimes.

Expert contributors analyze the relevant domestic laws in each stat…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781803929125
ISBN-10:180392912X
Author:Lachezar Yanev, Harmen van der Wilt
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:660
Release Date:23 September 2025
Dimensions:169mm x 244mm
Series:Elgar International Law and Practice series
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About The Author

Lachezar Yanev

Edited by Lachezar Yanev, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Harmen van der Wilt, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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