TY - BOOK ID - 4864926 TI - The Accusation Model Before the International Criminal Court : Study of Convergence of Criminal Justice Systems PY - 2015 SN - 9783319176260 3319176250 9783319176253 3319176269 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Law. KW - International Criminal Law. KW - Sources and Subjects of International Law, International Organizations. KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law. KW - International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. KW - Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History. KW - Droit KW - Criminal procedure (International law) KW - Prosecution (International law) KW - International Criminal Court. KW - International criminal procedure KW - U.N. International Criminal Court KW - United Nations. KW - ICC KW - CPI KW - Cour pénale internationale KW - Corte Penal Internacional KW - Internationella brottmålsdomstolen KW - Pengadilan Pidana Internasional KW - Kokusai Keiji Saibansho KW - Mezhdunarodnyĭ ugolovnyĭ sud KW - Međunarodni kazneni sud KW - Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny KW - Maḥkamat al-Jināʼīyah al-Duwalīyah KW - Guo ji xing shi fa yuan KW - 国际刑事法院 KW - Samnakngān ʻAyakān Sān ʻĀyā Rawāng Prathēt KW - Tribunal Penal Internacional KW - Law KW - Private international law. KW - Conflict of laws. KW - International law. KW - Comparative law. KW - International humanitarian law. KW - International criminal law. KW - Philosophy. KW - International law KW - International criminal law KW - International Criminal Law . KW - Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law . KW - Law—Philosophy. KW - Acts, Legislative KW - Enactments, Legislative KW - Laws (Statutes) KW - Legislative acts KW - Legislative enactments KW - Jurisprudence KW - Legislation KW - Humanitarian conventions KW - International humanitarian law KW - War (International law) KW - Choice of law KW - Conflict of laws KW - Intermunicipal law KW - International law, Private KW - International private law KW - Private international law KW - Legal polycentricity KW - Law of nations KW - Nations, Law of KW - Public international law KW - Criminal law, International KW - ICL (International criminal law) KW - Criminal law KW - Criminal jurisdiction KW - International crimes KW - Civil law UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4864926 AB - This book examines how the functioning of the International Criminal Court has become a forum of convergence between the common law and civil law criminal justice systems. Four countries were selected as primary examples of these two legal traditions: the United States, England and Wales, Germany and Poland. The first layer of analysis focuses on selected elements of the model of accusation that are crucial to the model adopted by the ICC. These are: development of the notion of the prosecutor’s independence in view of their ties to the countries and the Security Council; the nature and limits of the prosecutor’s discretional powers to initiate proceedings before the ICC; the reasons behind the prosecutor’s choice of both defendants and charges; the role the prosecutor plays in the procedure of disclosure of evidence and consensual termination of proceedings; and the determinants of the model of accusation used during trial and appeal proceedings. The second layer of the book consists in an analysis of the motives behind applying particular solutions to create the model of accusation before the ICC. It also shows how the model of accusation gradually evolved in proceedings before the military and ad hoc tribunals: ICTY and ICTR. Moreover, the question of compatibility of procedural institutions is addressed: In what ways does adopting a certain element of criminal procedure, e.g. discretional powers of the prosecutor to initiate criminal proceedings, influence the remaining procedural elements, e.g. the existence of the dossier of a case or the powers of a judge to change the legal classification of the criminal behavior appearing in the indictment? ER -