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gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to
the fold of All India Law Teachers Congress
(AILTC). I am sure you know, the Congress
came into existence by the pioneering effort
of its founder President,
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India Law Teachers (AILTC) is a registered
Society. The members of the AILTC are teachers
of law, teaching in various universities and
colleges in India. It has about 600 members.
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aims and objectives of the AILTC are to promote
the interests of legal education and members
of law teachers.
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AILTC strives to protect and promote
the rights and interests of law teachers
across India. As you all know, the AILTC
is about 10 years of age, and its membership
is growing over the years. We are very
happy and satisfied about this swelling
membership of the Congress, thanks to
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All India Law
Teachers (AILTC) is a registered Society.
The members of the AILTC are teachers
of law, teaching in various universities
and colleges in India. It has about
600 members. The aims and objectives
of the AILTC are to promote the interests
of legal education and members of law
teachers. It organizes conferences,
seminars and discussions on legal education.
The AILTC also strives to protect and
promote the rights and interests of
law teachers across India. It coordinates
with Bar Council of India (BCI), University
Grants Commission of India (UGC) and
other similar bodies for wider dissemination
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INTERPRETATION
OF STATUTES
A Reader
Ravindra Pratap
This reader understands statutory
interpretation before discussing
the introductory heads of discussion
on it. Extensive discussion of
representative judgments is interspersed
with excerpts from select writings
probative of the interpretative
concepts, categories and considerations.
Well referenced and indexed, the
reader is mainly for the student.
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New Book " INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS"
(Edited by: Manoj
Kumar Sinha ) (Manak Publications, New Delhi,
2010), http://www.manakpublications.com |
 About
the book:
Traditional international law governed by
the concept of state sovereignty, any alleged
responsibility for international wrongdoings
used to be attributed to the state alone.
Indeed, the role of an individual in traditional
international law was insignificant. With
the spread of decolonization, scourge of two
world wars, emergence of the United Nations,
incidents of genocide and crime against humanity,
growing interconnectedness of the international
community as a result of communication revolution,
effects of environmental degradation felt
in common with all the states have led to
change in the thinking regarding international
law. Now international law is seen as a discipline
to serve the international community as a
whole. International law has now come to govern
not merely states but non-state entities as
well. Non-state entities encapsulate individuals
as well. Individual has become the subjects
of international law. Responsibility of individuals
for breaches of international law started
to be addressed in a relatively new branch
of international law that is international
criminal law. The establishment of various
international and hybrid judicial bodies recently
to punish those who had committed war crimes,
crimes against humanity and genocide was significant
development in the field of international
criminal law. Till very recently, heads of
states were not subject to the jurisdiction
of national courts for whatever acts they
may have committed and there were no international
courts which would have jurisdiction to try
the heads of state. Until recently, the immunity
of high ranking state officials who engaged
in commission of such crimes was absolute,
based on traditional rules safeguarding the
sovereignty of states, but this is no longer
valid.
After long negotiations the Statute of the
International Criminal Court ( ICC ), was
finally adopted on 17 July 1998 in Rome. The
adoption of the ICC Statute was a historical
breakthrough in the field of international
criminal law. This is the first ever permanent,
treaty based, international criminal court
established to promote the rule of law and
ensure that the gravest international crimes
do not go unpunished. It was after great deliberations
that the ICC was established. The ICC is intended
primarily as a court of last resort. In a
way, the ICC jurisdiction can only be invoked,
if the national judicial systems are unable
or unwilling to investigate and prosecute,
those who are responsible for crimes against
humanity, genocide, and war crimes. Although
more than 110 States have ratified the Statute,
only a handful States have adopted national
legislation so far to implement Rome Statue
at national level. The duty of states to investigate
and prosecute certain serious international
crimes should also be borne in mind. Constitutional
provisions should be interpreted consistently
with international law obligations.
This book is an effort to address the recent
development in the areas of International
Criminal Law and to achieve this objective
the editor successfully convinced (of course
with the help of good friends) the eminent
judges and academicians to contribute for
this book who are actively involved in the
implementation and evolution of jurisprudence
of the international criminal law
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