Fact-Finding Without Facts: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions
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About the Book
"Fact-finding Without Facts explores international criminal fact-finding - empirically, conceptually, and normatively. After reviewing thousands of pages of transcripts from various international criminal tribunals, the author reveals that international criminal trials are beset by numerous and severe fact-finding impediments that substantially impair the tribunals' ability to determine who did what to whom. These fact-finding impediments have heretofore received virtually no publicity, let alone scholarly treatment, and they are deeply troubling not only because they raise grave concerns about the accuracy of the judgments currently being issued but because they can be expected to similarly impair the next generation of international trials that will beheld at the International Criminal Court. After setting forth her empirical findings, the author considers their conceptual and normative implications. The author concludes that international criminal tribunals purport a fact-finding competence that theydo not possess, and as a consequence, base their judgments on a less precise, more amorphous method of fact-finding than they publicly acknowledge. The book ends with an exploration of various normative questions, including the most foundational: whetherthe international tribunals' fact-finding impediments fatally undermine the international criminal justice project"--Provided by publisher.
Book Details
ISBN-13: 9781107699717
EAN: 9781107699717
Publisher Date: 30 May 2013
Binding: Paperback
Book Type: Academic_Level
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Dewey: 345.06
Gardner Classification Code: V01
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
MediaMail: Y
Pagination: 434 pages, black & white illustrations
Returnable: N
Spine Width: 22 mm
Width: 150 mm
ISBN-10: 1107699711
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Acedemic Level: Academic_Level
Bood Data Readership Text: Professional & Vocational
Continuations: English
Depth: 25
Edition: Reprint
Height: 226 mm
Language: English
No of Pages: 420
PrintOnDemand: N
Series Title: English
Sub Title: The Uncertain Evidentiary Foundations of International Criminal Convictions
Year Of Publication: 2013