Universal Jurisdiction International and Municipal Legal Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.

Introduction
Universal Jurisdiction in International Law
1. The General Problem of Jurisdiction in International Law
A. The Lotus case
B. Absence of a global convention on criminal jurisdiction
C. Consequences of ultra vires jurisdiction and remedies
D. Extradition and human rights
E. Burden of proof
F. Principles of jurisdiction
G. Forms of jurisdiction
H. Jurisdiction and globalization: pressure for change
2. Universal Jurisdiction in Doctrine
A. The co-operative general universality principle
B. The co-operative limited universality principle
C. The unilateral limited universality principle
3. Universal Jurisdiction in Current International Texts
A. Multilateral conventions
B. Resolutions of intergovernmental bodies
C. Official drafts and studies
Universal Jurisdiction in Municipal Law
4. Australia
5. Austria
6. Belgium
7. Canada
8. Denmark
9. France
10. Germany
11. Netherlands
12. Israel
13. Senegal
14. Spain
15. Switzerland
16. United Kingdom
17. United States

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 JustilÃ%