Book Review of Internationalized Criminal Courts: Sierra Leone, East Timor, Kosovo and Cambodia

Ali Adnan Al-Feel

Assistant Lecturer in Criminal Law, College of Law, University of Mosul, Mosul University Post Office, P.O. Box 11095, Al-Majmo'oa Al-Thaqafyia, Mosul-Nineveh, Iraq.

Abstract:

At the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, a new generation of internationalized criminal justice bodies emerged to prosecute suspects of international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Designed to address the weaknesses of both international and domestic criminal courts, these courts combine national and international elements. Their bench consists of both international and national judges and they can apply both international and national law. This book is an edited and updated collection of papers from a conference held in Amsterdam in January 2002. The conference was jointly convened by No Peace Without Justice, the Amsterdam center on International law and the project on International courts and tribunals.

Keyword:

prosecute suspects ,nternationalized criminal justice bodies ,Amsterdam