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The Defence of Mistake of Law in International Criminal Law: A Study on Ignorance and Blame
Ignorance and mistake of law tend to exclude responsibility in national and international criminal law. This monograph updates the existing reviews of law and practice on the topic and focuses on the appropriateness of imposing a guilty verdict on the individual defendant.
| Author(s) | By Antonio Coco (Lecturer at the School of Law, Lecturer, University of Essex). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 304 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 4 Aug 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
Ignorance and mistake of law tend to exclude responsibility in national and international criminal law. This monograph updates the existing reviews of law and practice on the topic and focuses on the appropriateness of imposing a guilty verdict on the individual defendant.
Antonio Coco is a Lecturer at the School of Law, University of Essex. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford). Previously, Antonio was a Departmental L
