Universal jurisdiction : national courts and the prosecution of serious crimes under international law / edited by Stephen Macedo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of universal jurisdiction and its place in international law / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Comment : Quest for clarity / Stephen A. Oxman -- Growing support for universal jurisdiction in national legislation / A. Hays Butler -- Adolf Eichmann case : universal and national jurisdiction / Gary J. Bass -- Comment : connecting the threads in the fabric of international law / Lori F. Damrosch -- Assessing the Pinochet litigation : whither universal jurisdiction / Richard A. Falk -- Comment : universal jurisdiction and transitions to democracy / Pablo De Greiff -- Hisseǹe Habré case : the law and politics of universal jurisdiction / Stephen P. Marks -- Defining the limits : universal jurisdiction and national courts / Ann-Marie Slaughter -- Universal jurisdiction, national amnesties, and truth commission : reconciling the irreconcilable / Leila Nadya Sadat -- Future of universal jurisdiction in the new architecture of transnational justice / Diane F. Orentlicher -- Universal jurisdiction and judicial reluctance : a new fourteen points / Michael Kirby -- Afterword : Politics of advancing international criminal justice / Lloyd Axworthy.