Domestic legal pluralism and the International Criminal Court : (Record no. 13821)
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| fixed length control field | 02658cam a22002418i 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780367767273 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780367767310 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 340.5909669 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Yang, Justin Su-Wan, |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Domestic legal pluralism and the International Criminal Court : |
| Remainder of title | the case of Shari'a law in Nigeria / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Justin Su-Wan Yang. |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; |
| -- | New York, NY : |
| Name of publisher | Routledge, |
| Year of publication or production | 2021. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | pages cm |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Pluralism in international criminal law -- Legal pluralism and Shari'a law -- History of legal pluralism in Nigeria -- Boko Haram and Shari'a violence in Nigeria -- The International Criminal Court in Nigeria. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "This book explores how the unique historical development of Islamic Shari'a criminal law alongside English common law in northern Nigeria has created a hybridised criminal legal system through a pluralist dynamic of mutual accommodation. It studies how this system may potentially be accommodated by the International Criminal Court. The work examines how this could be accommodated through the current understanding and operation of complementarity, and that it could ultimately prove to be preferable in encouraging the Shari'a courts to exercise criminal justice over the radical insurgents in northern Nigeria. These courts would have the unprecedented ability to combine binding adjudicative judgments together with religious interpretation and guidance, which can directly combat the predominantly unchallenged domain of ideology by extremist actors. It is submitted that these pluralist perspectives are timely and welcome, given the undeniably Western European foundations of modern International Criminal Law. In exploring such potential avenues, our shared understanding of modern international criminal justice is widened to necessarily include other stakeholders beyond its Western founders. It is the aim and hope that such interactions and engagements with non-Western traditions and cultures will lead to a greater shared ownership of the international criminal justice project, which will only strengthen the global fight against impunity. The book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of International Criminal Law, Legal Pluralism, Islamic Shari'a Law, Nigeria, and religiously-inspired violence"-- |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Legal polycentricity |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Islamic law |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | International and municipal law |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | International criminal courts |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Criminal justice, Administration of |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Complementarity (International law) |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | International criminal law. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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