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Oliver, Dawn (Ed.)

Justice, legality and rule of law : lessons from the Pitcairn prosecution edited by Dawn Oliver. - New York : Oxford, 2009. - 232 p.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Problems on Pitcairn / Dawn Oliver
Chapter 2. The Pitcairn prosecutions, paper legal systems, and the rule of law / Dawn Oliver
Chapter 3. Pitcairn's tortured past : a legal history / Andrew Lewis
Chapter 4. Pitcairn Island law : a peculiar case of the diffusion of the common law / Gordon Woodman
Chapter 5. The Pitcairn prosecutions : an assessment of their historical context by reference to the provisions of public international law / Dino Kritsiotis and A.W.B. Simpson
Chapter 6. 'A million mutinies now' : why claims of cultural uniqueness cannot be used to justify violations of basic human rights / Colm O'Cinneide
Chapter 7. Rights and duties on Pitcairn Island / George Letsas
Chapter 8. Legality, reciprocity, and the criminal law on Pitcairn / Stephen Guest.
Afterword
Appendices
References
Index

ISBN: 9780199568666

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Criminal Liability--Great Britain.

Dewey Class. No.: 349.9618 / OL/JUS