International Criminal Jurisdiction Whose Law Must We Obey Kenneth S Gallant by Kenneth S. Gallant 9780199941476, 0199941475 instant download after payment.

As crime across borders grows, so does the importance of national authority to define acts of outsiders as criminal and to prosecute those who commit those acts; the importance of international authority to define crimes against the international community grows as well. The principles and rules constraining states and the international community in making and enforcing law comprise the international law of criminal jurisdiction. This is the first book in English since World War II systematically to address what this law is, how it is made from national and international sources, what its weaknesses are, and what might be done to address them. It is also the first book systematically to treat the jurisdictional statutes of all legal systems, including civil law, common law, Islamic law, and never-colonized Asian states as sources of the international law of criminal jurisdiction.