Criminal law and human rights / edited by P.H.P.H.M.C. van Kempen. - xxxiii, 455 pages ; 25 cm. - The international library of essays on criminal law .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Four threats to the presumption of innocence / Andrew Ashworth -- Pretrial and preventive detention of suspected terrorists : options and constraints under international law / Douglass Cassel -- Privacy as struggle / Andrew E. Taslitz -- Why must trials be fair? / Stefan Trechsel -- Re-conceptualizing the right of silence as an effective fair trial standard / John Jackson -- Confrontation : the search for basic principles / Richard D. Friedman -- The protection of human dignity in interrogations : may interrogative torture ever be tolerated? : reflections in light of recent German and Israeli experiences / Miriam Gur-Arye and Florian Jessberger -- Rethinking double jeopardy : justice and finality in criminal process / Ian Dennis -- The doctrine of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding states' duty to punish human rights violations and its dangers / Fernando Felipe Basch -- Nulla poena sine lege / Jerome Hall -- Hate speech in constitutional jurisprudence : a comparative analysis / Michel Rosenfeld -- Freedom of religion and criminal law : a legal appraisal : from the principle of separation of church and state to the principle of pluralist democracy? / Piet Hein van Kempen -- The human rights implications of a'cultural defense' / Michael Fischer -- Life imprisonment : recent issues in national and international law / Dirk van Zyl Smit.

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Criminal law.
Human rights.