The Law and Practice of International Commissions of Inquiry

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The Law and Practice of International Commissions of Inquiry is written by Jens Meierhenrich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0198743262 (ISBN 10) and 9780198743262 (ISBN 13).

As the international community increasingly deploys investigative bodies in conflict zones to respond to the perpetration of large-scale violence, international commissions now make their presence felt across the globe. As bodies which recommend action are offer light-touch intervention in times of conflict, the traditional international commissions of enquiry founded in 1899 and 1907 are now firmly in the past. When comprehensive engagement by the international community would be politically or financially prohibitive, international commissions of enquiry are the alternative. Yet there is little academic knowledge of the area. How do international commissions choose methodologies for the collection of atrocity facts? What accounts for the variation in recommendations made? And what, if anything, is contributed to the termination of collective violence and the adjudication of international crimes? Bringing together a cast of writers from different fields, Jens Meierhenrich questions the politics, the power, and the pathologies of international commissions.