The Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Proceedings - Mbuayang Collins - ebook

This volume contains the proceedings of the 59th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held during the IAC in Guadalajara, Mexico in September 2016, as well as the papers presented at the IISL-ECSL Space Law Symposium held on the occasion of the 55th Session of the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, Austria in April 2016, and the report of the 11th Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law, held in Washington D.C., United States in December 2016. It also contains the report and best written memorials of the World Finals of the 25th Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 56th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space held in Beijing, China in September 2013, including the 28th IAA-IISL Scientific-Legal Roundtable, as well as the papers presented at the IISL-ECSL Space Law Symposium held on the occasion of the 52nd session of the Legal Subcommittee of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna, Austria in April 2013, and the report of the 8th Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law, held in Washington D.C., United States in December 2013. It also contains the report and best written memorials of the World Finals of the 22nd Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition.

Linking High-level Accused to Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes in International Criminal Law focuses on the theoretical and practical perspectives taken by the ICTY, ICTR, and ICC. It seeks to answer the question of how high-level officials can and should be investigated and prosecuted for their role in the commission of sexual and gender-based crimes. The author examines the forms, types, and amount of evidence used to prove the role of these high-level accused in the commission of crimes by rank-and-file soldiers. As the accused are usually not present on the crime scene, the international criminal courts and tribunals must rely on individual criminal liability theories enshrined in Article 7 ICTY Statute, Article 6 ICTR Statute, and Articles 25 & 28 Rome Statute to connect them to the atrocities committed on the ground. 100 individual cases from the ICTY, ICTR, and ICC are examined and reveal that in most cases there was sufficient evidence to prove that sexual and gender-based crimes…