Suchergebnisse

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Overview -- Scope of this book -- Modus operandi of unconstitutional usurpation of power -- Judges' roles in unconstitutional usurpation of power -- Practical challenges -- Methodological and related normative questions -- 2 Legal bases to assess the lawfulness of unconstitutional usurpation of power -- Legal bases used to validate coups -- Legal bases used to invalidate coups -- Concluding remarks -- 3 Permissible parameters for judges in post-coup suppression of fundamental rights and freedoms -- International conventions and rules of customary international law on the protection of fundamental rights and freedoms -- States of emergency and derogation of fundamental rights and freedoms -- Military tribunals -- Law enforcement measures -- Refusal to render judgments on 'political questions' -- Concluding remarks -- 4 Availability or non-availability of defences for judges in relation to judicial responsibility post-coups -- Individual criminal responsibility arising from judges' roles in an oppressive regime -- Independence of judiciary and allegiance to the new 'constitutional' order -- Superior orders -- Duress -- Judicial immunity -- Concluding remarks -- 5 Amnesties, pardons, immunities and other restrictions on the prosecution of usurpers of power and their accomplices or collaborators -- Amnesties, pardons and immunities -- Statutes of limitations -- Transitional justice -- A right balance -- Concluding remarks -- 6 International or extra-territorial criminal prosecution of coups-related crimes of international concern -- Prosecution before the International Criminal Court, ad hoc international tribunals and hybrid courts -- Prosecution in foreign courts exercising universal jurisdiction -- 7 Epilogue -- Index.