Fact-finding without facts the uncertain evidentiary foundations of international criminal convictions
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 sever...
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- The evidence supporting international criminal convictions
- Questions unanswered : international witnesses and the information unconveyed
- The educational, linguistic, and cultural impediments to accurate fact-finding at the international tribunals
- Of inconsistencies and their explanations
- Perjury : the counternarrative
- Expectations unfulfilled : the consequences of the fact-finding impediments
- Casual indifference : the trial chambers' treatment of testimonial deficiencies
- Organizational liability revived : the pro-conviction bias explained
- Help needed : practical suggestions and procedural reforms to improve fact-finding accuracy
- Assessing the status quo : they are not doing what they say they are doing but is what they are doing worth doing?