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Defenses in Contemporary International Criminal Law

A meticulous analysis of the case law of the post World War II Military Tribunals and the ad hoc tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, and of the defense provisions in the charters and statutes underlying these tribunals and the International Criminal Court. Dr. Knoops proposes systematic measures by which fair and rigorous defenses may be put to use in all cases where international criminal law applies, especially the problematic field of multinational peacekeeping operations. Dr. Knoops' conceptual reach includes not only defenses recognized in jurisprudence and scholarship-superior orders, duress, self-defense, insanity, necessity, immunity of States-but also presents a strong case for the incorporation of genetic and neurobiological data into the working assets of the international criminal defense attorney.

Defenses in Contemporary International Criminal Law ventures farther into this uneasy territory than any previous work, offering a meticulous analysis of the case law in the post World War II Military Tribunals and the ad hoc tribunals for ...