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• How can central banks deliver credible commitment and be "emergency institutions?" / Paul Tucker
• Policy rule legislation in practice / David H. Papell, Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy and Ruxandra Prodan
• Goals versus rules as Central Bank performance measures / Carl E. Walsh
• Institutional design : deliberations, decisions, and committee dynamics / Kevin M. Warsh
• Some historical reflections on the governance of the Federal Reserve / Michael D. Bordo
• Panel on independence, accountability, and transparency in central bank governance / Charles I. Plosser, George P. Shultz, and John C. Williams.

A central bank needs authority and a sphere of independent action. But a central bank cannot become an unelected Czar with sweeping, unaccountable discretionary power. How can we balance the central bank's authority and independence with needed accountability and constraints? Drawn from a 2015 Hoover Institution conference, this book features distinguished scholars and policy makers' discussing this and other key questions about the Fed. Going beyond the widely talked about decision of whether to raise interest rates, they focus on a deeper set of questions, including, among others, How should the Fed make decisions? How should the Fed govern its internal decision-making processes? What is the trade-off between greater Fed power and less Fed independence? And how should Congress, from which the Fed ultimately receives its authority, oversee the Fed? The contributors discuss whether central banks can both follow rule-based policy in normal times but then implement a discretionary do-what-it-takes approach to stopping financial crises. They evaluate legislation, recently proposed in the US House and Senate, that would require the Fed to describe its monetary policy rule and, if and when it changed or deviated from its rule, explain the reasons. And they discuss to best ways to structure a committee-like the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rates-to make good decisions, as well as offer historical reflections on the governance of the Fed and much more.
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• Ensuring accountability for core international crimes in armed forces : obligations and self-interest / by Morten Bergsmo and SONG Tianying
• Military justice and self-interest in accountability / by Arne Willy Dahl
• Ownership of international humanitarian law / by Richard J. Goldstone
• The international humanitarian law implementation paradigm and the idea of military self-interest in accountability / by SONG Tianying
• Accountability in the 19th-century US Army / by Elizabeth L. Hillman
• The self-interest of armed forces in accountability for their members for core international crimes : carrot is better than stick / by Bruce Houlder
• Contextual analysis of accountability for core international crimes : a perspective from the Indonesian armed forces / by Agus Widjojo
• Compliance with the law of armed conflict : an Israeli perspective / by Marlene Mazel
• The impact of religion on military self-interest in accountability : an Islamic sharīʹah perspective / by Adel Maged
• The interest of states in accountability for sexual violence in armed conflicts : a case study of comfort women of the Second World War / by Kiki Anastasia Japutra
• If you're not at the table, you're on the menu : complementarity and self-interest in domestic processes for core international crimes / by Christopher Mahony
• Self-interest or self-inflicted? How the United States charges its service members for violating the laws of war / by Christopher Jenks
• Awakening self-interest : American military justice in Afghanistan and Iraq / by Franklin D. Rosenblatt
• Prosecuting members of the armed forces for core international crimes : a judicial act in the self-interest of the armed forces? / by Roberta Arnold
• Troop discipline, the rule of law and mission operational effectiveness in conflict-affected states / by Róisín Burke
• Military or civilian jurisdiction for international crimes? An approach from self-interest in accountability of armed forces in international law / by Elizabeth Santalla Vargas.

• Non-criminal justice fact-work in the age of accountability / by Marina Aksenova and Morten Bergsmo
• Quality control in international fact-finding outside criminal justice for core international crimes / by Richard J. Goldstone
• Improving fact-finding in treaty-based human rights mechanisms and the special procedures of the United Nations Human Rights Council / by Martin Scheinin
• Justified belief in the unbelievable / by Simon De Smet
• Quality control in truth and reconciliation processes / by Lui Daqun
• Quality control and the mandate of international fact-finding / by Fan Yuwen
• Coherence in the design and implementation of the mandates of international fact-finding commissions : internal and external dimensions / by Isabelle Lassée
• Quality control and the selection of members of international fact-finding mandates / by Wu Xiaodan
• Purpose and legitimacy in international fact-finding bodies / by Dan Saxon
• Witness sensitive practices in international fact-finding outside of criminal justice : lessons for Nepal / by Chris Mahony
• Fact-finding in the former Yugoslavia : what the courts did / by David Re
• International criminal law outside the courtroom : the impact of focusing on international crimes for the quality of fact-finding / by Dov Jacobs and Catherine Harwood
• Can international criminal investigators and prosecutors afford to ignore information from United Nations human rights sources? / by Lyal S. Sunga
• Non-governmental organisation fact-work : not only a technical problem / by Wolfgang Kaleck and Carolijn Terwindt
• Fact-finding and the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission / by Charles Garraway
• Information technology and quality control in non-criminal justice fact-work / by Ilia Utmelidze.

• Preface
• 1. Between Territoriality and Universality: Room for Further Reflection / Morten Bergsmo
• 2. Fewer Places to Hide? The Impact of Domestic War Crimes Prosecutions on International Impunity / Joseph Rikhof
• 3. Complementarity: Contest or Collaboration? / Rod Rastan
• 4. The Relationship between the Principle of Complementarity and the Exercise of Universal Jurisdiction for Core International Crimes / Jo Stigen
• 5. Reflections by a Core International Crimes Prosecutor : between Territoriality and Universality / Pål Lønseth
• 6. Complementarity in Universality Cases: Legal-Systemic and Legal Policy Considerations / Cedrik Ryngaert
• 7. The Role of Universal Jurisdiction in the International Criminal Court Complementarity System / Christopher K. Hall
• 8. Concurring Criminal Jurisdictions under International Law / Florian Jessberger, Wolfgang Kaleck and Andreas Schueller
• 9. The Principle of Complementarity: A Means Towards a More Pragmatic Enforcement of the Goal Pursued by Universal Jurisdiction? / Fausto Pocar and Magali Maystre
• Index.

• Introduction
• Overview of ways to import core international crimes into national criminal law
• The Canadian model
• The German model
• Discussion on particular problems in connection with the import of core international crimes into national criminal law
• Importing war crimes into Norwegian legislation / Mads Harlem.

A handbook listing books, periodicals, directories, non-print materials, and other information sources on human rights, intended for researchers, students, and activists.

• This reference work reflects the growing international concern over human rights. It provides explanations of the terminology, issues, organizations and laws surrounding this emotive subject. A Dictionary of Human Rights features: over 200 clear and concise mini-essays alphabetical arrangement for ease of use explanations of terms connected with human rights including Abortion, Liberty, slavery, Genocide and Minority Rights includes entries on organizations concerned with human rights including: Amnesty International, Equal Opportunities Commission and American Civil Liberties Union outlines the significance of eminent thinkers, such as Locke, Cardozo and Nozick.
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This publication offers a comprehensive guide to documents and organizations which are concerned with the issues of human rights. It includes up-to-date definitions and short essays about each of the 300 entries. The entries are arranged alphabetically, cross-referenced, and divided into regional and national differences. Explanations of the legal factors and implications are also included. The book lists organizations which are concerned with human rights, including Amnesty International, European Commission on Human Rights and Conseil d'Etat. It also lists various extracts from documents written about human rights, including the "Bill of Rights 1688", the "European Social Charter" and the "Convention Against Torture". The book discusses the basic ideas of rights and liberties, and the role of conventions, declarations, courts, tribunals and legal systems upholding them. It provides concise outlines of the general positons on human rights for all leading developed countries. It should be useful to public and academic libraries, students, teachers, journalists and any organization or individual with an interest in human rights issues.
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• A. Statutes of Intergovernmental Organizations. B. Human Rights in General. C. Rights of Women. D. Prevention/Elimination of Racial Discrimination. E. Religion. F. Rights of the Child. G. Right to Education. H. Employment. I. Rights of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples. J. Administration of Justice. Treatment of Offenders. The Judiciary, Law Enforcement and Legal Profession. Juvenile Justice. Protection of Victims. Capital Punishment. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Extra-Legal Executions. HIV Infection and AIDS in Prisons. K. Asylum and Refugees. L. International Crimes. M. Right to Development.
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The selection of instruments in this compilation is based on the experience acquired by staff of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. All of the texts reproduced are the subject of frequent references in courses, seminars and workshops organized by the Institute. The Instruments chosen are both international and regional. There are treaties and declarations, some of them general and others specific or with specialized contents, and they cover civil, cultural, economic, political, social and solidarity rights. The compilation concludes with an index which should facilitate the use of the various instruments. The index covers both substantive issues and procedural avenues. An attempt has been made, with cross-references, to link identical or similar issues even when different terms are employed.
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