'Sentencing in International Criminal Law: The UN Ad Hoc Tribunals and Future Perspectives for the ICC' by Silva D'Ascoli

Abstract

I went on to read that the goal pursued by the author, a lawyer with the Appeals Division of the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal of the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the holder of a Doctorate in Law, was quite ambitious: to make plain how international sentencing law and practice is not yet defined by exact norms and principles and to investigate and analyse the process of international sentencing in order to explain how an offender responsible for multiple deaths associated with a heinous motive often receives a sanction far inferior to that meted out by domestic courts.