Quality Control in Fact-Finding

ISBN 10: 8283481355 / ISBN 13: 9788283481358

Published by Torkel Opsahl Academic Epublisher, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quality Control in Fact-Finding
• Publisher: Torkel Opsahl Academic Epublisher
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8283481355
• ISBN 13: 9788283481358
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1788791120.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 48213263
• Signed: 9/7/2026 2:25:20 PM
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Synopsis

This book discusses how fact-finding mechanisms for alleged violations of international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law can be improved. There has been a significant increase in the use of international(ised) and domestic fact-finding mechanisms since 1992, including by the United Nations human rights system, international commissions of inquiry, truth and reconciliation commissions, and NGO fact-finding. They are analysed and assessed in detail by 22 authors under the common theme 'Quality Control in Fact-Finding'. The authors include Richard J. Goldstone, Martin Scheinin, LIU Daqun, Charles Garraway, David Re, Simon De Smet, FAN Yuwen, Isabelle Lassée, WU Xiaodan, Dan Saxon, Christopher B. Mahony, Dov Jacobs, Catherine Harwood, Lyal S. Sunga, Wolfgang Kaleck, Carolijn Terwindt, Ilia Utmelidze and Marina Aksenova. This Second Edition includes new chapters by Geoffrey Robertson QC, Emma Irving and William H. Wiley, as well as a new foreword by Mads Andenæs.

The book considers how the quality of every functional aspect of fact-finding can be improved, including work processes to identify, locate, obtain, verify, analyse, corroborate, summarise, synthesise, structure, organise, present and disseminate facts. Emphasis is placed on the nourishment of an individual mindset and institutional culture of quality control. This book concerns fact-work outside criminal justice systems. It is supplemented by Quality Control in Preliminary Examination: Volumes 1 and 2 and Quality Control in Criminal Investigation in the same Series.

About the Authors

Morten Bergsmo is Director, Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP). He has previously been an academic at Georgetown University, Peking University and Stanford University.

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at Leiden Law School and Queen's University Belfast.