Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation provides a serious and timely perspective on the relationship between two important and dynamic fields of international law. Comprising chapters written by leading academics and international lawyers, this book examines how the principles and practices of international criminal law and sustainable development can contribute to one another’s elaboration, interpretation and implementation. Chapters in the book discuss the potential and limitations of international criminalization as a means for protecting the basic foundations of sustainable development; the role of existing international crimes in penalizing serious forms of economic, social, environmental and cultural harm; the indirect linkages that have developed between sustainable development and various mechanisms of criminal accountability and redress; and innovative proposals to broaden the scope of international criminal justice. With its rigorous and innovative arguments, this book forms a unique and urgent contribution to current debates on the future of global justice and sustainability.
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Review
‘Sustainable Development, International Criminal Justice, and Treaty Implementation opens new horizons for the international criminal regime … Thanks to the editors and contributors of this book, the question of identifying which precise acts should be defined as new international crimes, based on the gravity of their adverse impacts on sustainable development and the appropriateness of such measure, is resolutely on the agenda for future research and law reform.’ Christopher Campbell-Duruflé, Revue québécoise de droit international
Book Description
This book provides a serious and timely perspective on the relationship between two important and dynamic fields of international law.
About the Author
Sébastien Jodoin is a Trudeau Scholar, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and PhD candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where his research focuses on human rights and environmental governance. He has lectured widely at universities and conferences in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa and has published in such leading journals as the International Criminal Law Review, the McGill International Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy, the Leiden Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Law and International Relations. In addition, Jodoin is a Lead Counsel with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law, the Director of the One Justice Project, and a member of the Governance, Environment and Markets Initiative at Yale University. He most recently received the 2012 Public Scholar Award from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for conducting research ‘that engages and betters the world at large’.
Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger is an international lawyer, scholar and executive in the field of sustainable development. She serves as Head of the Economic Growth and Trade Department of the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Rome, Italy, with a unique mandate for law and development. Through the IDLO, she provides legal advice and technical assistance on the negotiation and implementation of international treaties on sustainable development to countries in the Americas, Africa and Asia Pacific, and to the United Nations. Cordonier Segger has published more than sixty papers and fourteen books on sustainable economic development law and policy in three languages. She is a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press series Treaty Implementation for Sustainable Development.
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