ad hoc tribunal in a sentence
Examples
- The genocide served as an impetus for creating the International Criminal Court to eliminate the need for ad hoc tribunals to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
- Ranariddh, speaking to reporters at a school ceremony, cited examples of recent U . N .-backed ad hoc tribunals dealing with crimes against humanity in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
- About 40 Suai residents protested the verdicts Saturday, greeting Robinson with signs reading " We want justice " and " We can't trust the ad hoc tribunals in Jakarta ."
- "You can't just set up ad hoc tribunals, because clearly everyone would be suspicious of those tribunals, " said lawyer Michael Ratner of the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights.
- The trial of Peter von Hagenbach by an ad hoc tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire in 1474, was the first " international " recognition of commanders'obligations to act lawfully.
- A permanent international tribunal is not yet created, an ad hoc tribunal would be politically difficult to create and a national tribunal would be unlikely to deliver a fair trial.
- Ferencz as well as judges from the ad hoc tribunals on Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia all spoke at the second day of the five-week U . N . treaty conference.
- This is of particular relevance to international law since international courts, be it the International Court of Justice or ad hoc tribunals, cannot invent law to redress a " lacuna ".
- In its current conception, it is a weaker body than the ad hoc tribunal for Yugoslavia, which must fight to keep its indictments from being bargained away in a Bosnia peace settlement.
- In 1474, in the trial of Peter von Hagenbach by an ad hoc tribunal of the Holy Roman Empire, the first known international recognition of commanders obligations to act lawfully occurred.