Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Treaties and Other Agreements. -- Table of Amnesty Laws and Decrees. -- Table of Cases. -- Abbreviations. -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The Practice of Amnesty: Its Emergence, Development and Rational. -- 3. National Amnesty Laws. -- 4. The Rationale of Legal Liability and Amnesty. -- 5. Opting for Prosecution or Amnesty in a System of General Relativity. -- 6. Prosecution Pursuant to International Humanitarian Law Treaties. -- 7. Addressing Impunity through Human Rights Treaties and Related Instruments. -- 8. Defining the Parameters and Criteria for a General Norm against Impunity. -- 9. State Practice, Opinio Juris and a Duty to Prosecute. -- 10. Amnesty and Civil Liability. -- 11. Reconciling Municipal Amnesty with Global Justice: the need for a Protocol to the Rome Statute. -- 12. Conclusion Towards the Development of Principles for the Limitation of Municipal Amnesty Laws. -- Appendix: -- Draft Protocol. -- Bibliography. -- Index.

This book contains a comprehensive and well-researched study of the relationship between municipal amnesty laws and developing principles of international criminal law. It pursues a path towards defining criteria for reconciling these two delicate fields of transitional justice. It concludes with a concrete proposal for the international community of states.

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