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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Table of Treaties -- Table of Cases -- Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly -- Chapter I. Introduction -- 1. Aim -- 2. Role of Value in Legal Enquiry -- 3. Dual Character of Law (Method of Enquiry) -- Chapter II. Individual Responsibility in Positive Laws of War -- 1. In General -- 2. War Crimes -- (i) Before Nuremburg -- Early Customary Law -- Hague Conventions and Regulations -- Inter-War Period -- (ii) Nuremburg Charter and Judgments -- (iii) Content and Legal Status of the Norm Since Nuremburg -- 3. Crimes Against Peace -- 4. Crimes Against Humanity -- (i) Before Nuremburg -- (ii) Nuremburg Charter and Judgments -- (iii) Content and Legal Status of the Norm Since Nuremburg -- 5. Significance of the Nuremburg Trials and Expansion of 'Crimes Against Humanity' -- 6. The Geneva Convention System of Grave Breaches -- (i) Substantial Aspects -- (ii) Significance of the System of Grave Breaches -- 7. Defenses to Allegations of International Crimes -- (i) Superior Orders -- (ii) Duress -- (iii) Mistake -- (iv) Military Necessity -- (v) Reprisals -- (vi) Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity, 1968 -- Chapter Ill. Individual Responsibility in International Human Rights Law -- 1. Genocide -- (i) Background -- (ii) Substantial and Procedural Aspects of the UN Genocide Convention -- (iii) Present Legal Status of International Norms on Genocide -- 2. Apartheid -- (i) Background -- (ii) Substantial and Procedural Aspects of the UN Apartheid Convention -- (iii) Present Legal Status of International Norms on Apartheid -- 3. Torture -- (i) Background -- (ii) Substantial and Procedural Aspects of the UN Torture Convention -- (iii) Present Legal Status of International Norms on Torture.

Sunga reviews THE POLITICS OF JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory by Anthony J. Langlois.

Examines indictments of persons alleged to have held major official rank and to have played significant roles in the former government's policy of genocide.

Examines findings of the Commission to investigate human rights violations and genocide in Rwanda Apr. 6-July 15, 1994 and the establishment of a tribunal by the UN Security Council. Includes the statute of the International Tribunal for Rwanda.