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Article: A predictive framework for the effectiveness of international criminal tribunals.
- Article from:
- Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
- Article date:
- March 1, 2001
- Author:
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ABSTRACT
This Note examines international criminal tribunals and analyzes the factors that can govern the level of their effectiveness. The historical background in this area is essential, for one of the main points of the Note is that international criminal tribunals cannot be detached from the political circumstances that create them and enforce their verdicts if those verdicts are to be enforceable at all.
The Note begins with an analysis of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, and compares it to its contemporary counterpart, the International Military Tribunal at Tokyo. The Note then makes a similar analysis of the recent International ...