Universal Jurisdiction: International and Municipal Legal Perspectives

This study is a about the ambit of national criminal law. Can a country prosecute and punish a foreigner for a crime committed abroad against another foreigner? This book develops an international legal framework for the problem and examines in great detail the practice in fourteen countries including the US and leading European and Commonwealth jurisdictions.

Author: Luc Reydams
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/28/2003
Pages: 286
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.42h x 6.50w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780199251629

About the Author
Luc Reydams is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame.
Brussels, Attorney (1989-1992)
Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Freiburg-i-Br., Germany), Visiting Research Fellow (July-September '98)
University of Notre Dame, Kellogg Institute Dissertation Year Fellowship 1997-98
Luc Reydams has contributed to the American Journal of International Law, Criminal Law Forum, the European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, and the Yearbook of African Law.

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