Human societies face some significant problems—such as those tied to limitations of the human psyche, to tears in the social fabric, and to slow-moving natural processes—that defy rapid solution. Correspondingly, information systems that help to address these problems also develop over long(er) periods of time. Yet contemporary research and industry information system design is held to increasi...

The article presents a comparative analysis of genocide in Rwanda and Darfur. The first half of the article examines the patterns and origins of violence in both cases and uses the comparison to generate some theoretical inferences about the causes of genocide. The analysis finds that both cases demonstrate a similar character of violence but that in Rwanda the violence was more intense, more e...

Expert psychological assessment and evidence can be requested in a great many legal matters, including family law, matters before the Social Security Appeals Tribunal or the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (including appeals against not granting a pension, and immigration appeals), assessment of fitness to be tried, pre-sentence reports, assessments for bail or parole, assessment of whether or ...

Introduction........................................................................................ 80 I. The Ambitions of International Criminal Justice .......... 84 A. The Domestic Criminal Law Aims....................................... 85 B. The Historical Record Aim.................................................. 88 C. The Transitional Justice Aims.........................................

General principles of law are a primary mechanism for “gap-filling” in international criminal law. However, their interpretation by tribunals has been fitful, contradictory, and misguided. Given that general principles have been used to settle crucial legal issues that affect the rights of the accused, the confusion concerning their application threatens the legitimacy of international criminal...

Recent developments at the international level reveal that there is an increasing number of political resistances against courts and tribunals as part wide criticism basic principles law such rule law, global governance, multilateralism democratic liberalism. In this respect, future impact judicialisation which refers to uneven increase in jurisdiction judicial activity courts, are questioned. ...

Established under Section 25 of the HIV Prevention and Control Act of 2006, the HIV and AIDS Tribunal of Kenya is the only HIV-specific statutory body in the world with the mandate to adjudicate cases relating to violations of HIV-related human rights. Yet, very limited research has been done on this tribunal. Based on findings from a desk research and semi-structured interviews of key informan...

Abstract This article focuses on the challenges of ‘long-delayed’ prosecutions, that is, criminal prosecutions begin decades after conflict, using experience International Criminal Tribunal for Bangladesh (ICT-BD) as a case study. issue is still an insufficiently discussed topic even though such are likely to become more common in future. The focus this mainly legal and broader, transitional ju...

The article analyses the complex relation between politics and justice in international arena that is reflected Special Tribunal for Lebanon. subject matters developed are its problematic establishment by means of Security Council resolution 1757 (2007) selective nature, as well legal-doctrinal dispute laid out Ayyash et al. case, also known Hariri case. It stressed importance circumstantial fa...