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  title info:
    title: Universal Jurisdiction: The Sierra Leone Profile
  name:
    name part: Thompson, Justice Bankole.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XX, 141 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book is about the combating of impunity from international criminality, with a special focus on the role of Sierra Leone as a pioneer in the progressive application of international criminal law in the African region. Despite Sierra Leone’s role, the country’s profile, both in terms of the incorporation and application of the doctrine of universal jurisdiction, is deficient in several major respects falling far short of its dual international obligation not to provide safe havens from justice for perpetrators of international crimes and to combat impunity from such crimogenic acts. Based on his vast experience in this field, the author provides the reader with a seminal scholarly work articulating the existing state of the law in Sierra Leone and highlighting the deficiencies in the law and factors inhibiting the exercise of universal jurisdiction in this UN member state. He also proposes substantive and procedural law reforms in the state’s relevant law on the subject. The book is recommended reading for practitioners and scholars in international criminal law and related disciplines. Its accessibility is highly enhanced by relevant footnotes, tables and summaries of each chapter. Justice Bankole Thompson holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge. He is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, USA. He was a Judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. Currently, Justice Thompson is a Judge of the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, and a fellow of the Sierra Leone Institute of International Law.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Sources of International Law -- Relationship between International Law and Municipal Law -- Justice in Sierra Leone: Principal Agencies -- Justice in Sierra Leone: Subsidiary Agencies -- Jurisdiction: Nature, Scope, Dimensions and Complexities -- Universal Criminal Jurisdiction: Law and Practice in Sierra Leone -- Universal Civil Jurisdiction: Law and Practice in Sierra Leone -- Universal Jurisdiction: The Sierra Leone Profile – Problematic Features -- Universal Jurisdiction in Sierra Leone: Reform of the Law.
  note: by Justice Bankole Thompson.
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: Human rights
  subject:
    topic: International humanitarian law
  subject:
    topic: International criminal law
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    topic: International Criminal Law
  subject:
    topic: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict
  subject:
    topic: Human Rights
  classification: KZ7000-7500
  classification: 345
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Criminal Justice Series ; 3
  identifier: 9789462650541
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-054-1
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    record creation date: 150312
    record change date: 20151120183428.0
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