Human Rights in Criminal Proceedings - Couverture rigide

Trechsel, Stefan; Summers, Sarah

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198299362 ISBN 13 : 9780198299363

Editeur : OUP Oxford, 2005

Synopsis

Book by Trechsel Stefan

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Interest in human rights has grown enormously over the past fifty years. But while the media focus mainly on dramatic issues such as unlawful killings, torture, disappearances, or free speech violations, institutions charged with the implementation of human rights (as set out in international treaties) spend a great deal of their time dealing with alleged violations that take place during criminal proceedings.And in the future such issues will become even more important as a result of the increasing internationalization of the administration of criminal justice. In this book, the case-law of the most important and influential international bodies dealing with such issues is presented and critically examined by an author who has spent almost a quarter of a century contributing to its evolution. The European Commission and the European Court of Human Rights, in particular, have accumulated a considerable quantity of case-law,which is of particular interest because of its applicability in both Anglo-Saxon and Continental systems of criminal procedure. The law of the European Convention is emphasized because of its advanced procedures and the quality and quantity of its case-law, however the author also gives considerable coverage to the application of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the American Convention on Human Rights. The book will be of interest to all scholars, practitioners, and students of international criminal law and human rights.

Revue de presse :

Review from previous edition ...Trechsel has succeeded in presenting detailed interpretations of the jurisprudence,which display an impressively knowledgeable and credible analysis of human rights in criminal proceedings... a very significant enrichment of the literature on criminal procedural law... (Karsten Gaede, HRRS)

...exceptionally comprehensive and insightful ... pursues the many subtle questions down to the last detail... the author proceeds by weighing up the questions carefully. One notices it at every turn: Trechsel is aware that the nature of his subject requires him, in the balancing of extreme positions, to walk something of a tightrope..He distinguishes himself on the one hand from human rights activists who would like human rights to take priority over everything else and on the other from the representatives of the member states (governments) and their institutions...He sets out his beliefs in reform and in the fundamental importance of the procedural rights of those involved in legal proceedings... Trechsel's work will soon be at the forefront of books to be consulted in questions concerning the ECHR.' (Nicolas Schmid, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Strafecht (The Swiss Journal for Criminal Law))

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: OUP Oxford
• Date d'édition: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0198299362
• ISBN 13: 9780198299363
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 728