International prosecution of human rights crimes / Wolfgang Kaleck ... [et al.], (editors).

Papers from a conference organized by the Berlin-based Republikanischer Anwältinnen- und Anwälteverein (Republican Lawyers Association) and the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights was held in Berlin in June 2005 under the title Globalverfassung versus Realpolitik (Global Constitution versus Realpolitik).

Includes bibliographical references.

Protection of human rights by means of criminal law : on the relationship between criminal law and politics / Jörg Arnold -- Global constitutional struggles : human rights between colère publique and colère politique / Andreas Fischer-Lescano -- The future of universal jurisdiction / Peter Weiss -- On the aims and actual consequences of international prosecution of human rights crimes / Peer Stolle and Tobias Singelnstein -- Prosecuting international crimes at the national and international level : between justice and realpolitik / Kai Ambos -- Addressing the relationship between state immunity and jus cogens norms : a comparative assessment / Lorna McGregor -- Universal jurisdiction : developing and implementing an effective global strategy / Christopher Keith Hall -- German international criminal law in practice : from Leipzig to Karlsruhe / Wolfgang Kaleck -- The Pinochet effect and the Spanish contribution to universal jurisdiction / Naomi Roht-Arriaza -- Implementing the principle of universal jurisdiction in France / Jeanne Sulzer -- The political funeral procession for the Belgian UJ statute / Michael Verhaeghe -- The approach of the United Kingdom to crimes under international law : the application of extraterritorial jurisdiction / Carla Ferstman -- Coming to terms with genocide in Rwanda : the role of international and national justice / Dieter Magsam -- Military necessity, torture, and the criminality of lawyers / Scott Horton -- The prohibition of torture : absolute means absolute / Nigel S. Rodley -- Litigating Guantánamo / Michael Ratner -- Universality, complementarity, and the duty to prosecute crimes under international law in Germany / Florian Jessberger.