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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hybrid and Internationalised Criminal Tribunals: Selected Jurisdictional Issues by Sarah Williams
In recent years a number of criminal tribunals have been established to investigate prosecute and try individuals accused of serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights. These tribunals described as hybrid or internationalised tribunals include the Special Court for Sierra Leone the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Regulation 64 panels in Kosovo the War Crimes Chamber for Bosnia and Herzegovina the Iraqi High Tribunal and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Suggestions have also been made that this model of tribunal would be appropriate for the prosecution of atrocities committed in Burundi the Sudan Afghanistan Palestine and the Occupied Territories and Liberia.The aims of this book are to examine the role of hybrid and internationalised judicial institutions in prosecuting international crimes to outline the features of the existing and proposed tribunals to define and categorise the tribunals to determine the jurisdictional basis of each tribunal to analyse how the jurisdictional basis affects other issues the application of amnesties and immunities and the relationship of these tribunals with the host state third states national courts and other international criminal tribunals. The book concentrates on jurisdictional issues as this has been the subject of confusion in arguments before the tribunals and in their judgments. In its concluding section the book examines the future role of these tribunals particularly in light of the establishment of the ICC and the potential use of such tribunals in other contexts.