From Nuremberg to The Hague - The Future of International Criminal Justice Part 7 pot

... whole, these developments took us further away from, not closer to, an international criminal court. Indeed, it is not too much to say that the devel- opment of international criminal law from the ... line of treaties dealt with the suppression of crimes of international The drafting of the Rome Statute 119 9 Report of the International Law Co mmissio...

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... separate international criminal justice system. The drafting of the Rome Statute is the history of the move from the first to the second model. The ILC’s procedural model The ILC’s approach was to create ... state. Conceptually, the case would proceed on the basis of The drafting of the Rome Statute 1 37 within the Statute to the ICC. 30 Such...

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... London from April to June 2002, organ- ised around the theme From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Future of International Criminal Justice . The five lectures here published trace the historical and ... war crimes, from the machine-gunning of the survivors of sunken ships to the torture of prison- ers -of- war. For this there already existed legal prov...

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... considered to be an outline of the future foreign policy of Hitler’s Germany. A British Foreign Of ce analysis of the content of the book, writ- The Nuremberg trials: international law in the making 17 18 NA ... guest -of- honour at a dinner for the Tribunal judges, compelled his companions to raise their glasses in a macabre toast to the defendants:‘May th...

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... then defined as ‘violations of the laws and customs of war’. The simplic- ity of this definition masks the complexity of the detail of what actually constitutes a violation of the laws and customs ... were raised at the sentencing stage included the fact that he took no steps to prevent the participation of the tea factory employees or the use of its vehicl...

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... the Judgment of the Tokyo Tribunal summarising count one of the indictment, at p. 48,421 of the original transcripts, repro- duced in The Tokyo War Crimes Trial: The Complete Transcripts of the ... at the national level in national courts: these might be the national courts of the perpetrator, the national courts where the acts took place, the national cour...

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... with the crime of apartheid may be tried ‘by a competent tribunal of any state party to the Convention which may acquire jurisdiction of the person of the accused’. 38 After Pinochet: the role of ... the very purpose of the creation of an international criminal jurisdiction, to the benefit of the very people whom it has been designed to prosecute. 20...

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... strong support for the poten- tial role of national courts, against the background of the principle of ‘complementarity’ found in the Statute of the ICC. But the judgment of the House of Lords has also ... concerning the punishment of grave breaches of the Geneva Convention of 1949 and their Additional Protocols I and II of 1 977 and the punishment of...

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... appointment of women to the International Criminal Court be taken seriously by all states parties to the Rome Statute. The under-represen- tation of women on the Court threatens to undermine the legitimacy ... range of gender-based or sex-based crimes, provides certain protections to victims of these crimes, and calls for the inclusion of women in the diffe...

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... (eds.), The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches (Kluwer Law International, London and The Hague, 19 97) , p. 1 at p. 29. 26 See the Preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court. UK ... some of the functions of the ICC in its pursuit of international criminal justice . I would like to conclude this lecture by focusing...

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