issues of international humanitarian law and international criminal law

... parliament and cabinet A prolific writer, he is the author and editor of nearly 70 books and the author of over 230 law review articles on international criminal law, comparative criminal law, and human ... under the spell of international criminal law and the beauty of bringing an end to the culture of impunity”) LAWRENCE DOUGLAS, THE MEMORY OF JUDGMENT: MAKING LAW AND HISTORY IN TRIALS OF THE HOLOCAUST ... the development and dissemination of international humanitarian law, the creation of the International Criminal Court, and contribution to the Rome Statute Sandoz also details some of Bassiouni’s...

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2015, 00:47

... practice and procedure of international criminal law Key Issues in International Criminal Law Goes on to explore issues of importance such as universal jurisdiction, amnesties and international criminal ... University of Canterbury (New Zealand) from the University of Nottingham at the beginning of 2003 He teaches and researches in criminal law, international criminal law and transnational criminal law. Together ... extensively on topics of international criminal law Robert Cryer is Professor of International and Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham He is the author, inter alia, of Prosecuting International...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... of the Statute of the International Criminal Court and the role of national courts, and offers a challenging insight into the future of international criminal justice.This is an intelligent and ... written and lectured widely on issues of international criminal law and the ICC As a member of Matrix Chambers and Gray’s Inn, he has a substantial practice as counsel and arbitrator in international ... cases on international criminal law before national and international courts, including the Pinochet case in the House of Lords and the Croatia v Federal Republic of Yugoslavia case in the International...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... face A list of defendants and a list of indictable charges emerged only after months of argument, and in violation of the traditions of justice in all the major Allied powers The choice of defendants ... minister of the interior and former head of the Nazi People’s Court, and the SS general, Kurt Daluege, head of the Order Police and an important figure in the apparatus of repression and genocide ... insisted that Admiral Erich Raeder and an of cial of Goebbels’ propaganda ministry, Hans Fritsche, should also be included The remaining group of Nazi ministers and of cials were deemed to have done...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... on behalf of the State, who was not an of cial or an Issues of complexity, complicity and complementarity 39 organ of the State, and of whom, furthermore, in the face of the theory of law as it ... the history of human rights and humanitarian law There was a paradigm shift It was the beginning of a new way of thinking about international law as going beyond obligations on states and attaching ... complexity of the detail of what actually constitutes a violation of the laws and customs of war So, the Charter of the Tokyo Tribunal offered little assistance in dealing with the first layer of complexity...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... network of those who facilitate, plan and perpetrate the violations of human rights and humanitarian law The concept of complicity is at the heart of contemporary questions of morality and ethics ... ‘Enforcing International Humanitarian Law: Catching the Accomplices’ (2001) 83 Review of the International Committee of the Red Cross 439–59 at 451 Issues of complexity, complicity and complementarity ... other international courts I have mentioned Nuremberg and Tokyo made few concessions to any demands from the states of Germany and Japan The Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals prioritise international...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... development of international law. 3 He described the way in which the substantive norms of international law – both international human rights law and international humanitarian law – have been influenced ... violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of Rwanda and Rwandan citizens for such violations committed in the territory of neighbouring States, between January 1994 and ... principles of international law recognised by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the judgment of the tribunal and directed the committee on the codification of international law to treat...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... Protocols I and II of 1977 and the punishment of serious violation of international humanitarian law. The relevant Belgian law provided that its courts would have jurisdiction in respect of offences ... Case: Immunity of a Former Head of State’(1999) 48 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 207; and Jill M Sears, ‘Confronting the “Culture of Impunity”: Immunity of Heads of State from Nuremberg ... subsequent law review articles, for example, Michael Byers,‘The Law and Politics of the Pinochet Case’ (2000) 10 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 415, available at www .law. duke.edu/journals/djcil/articles/djcil10p415...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... suppression of crimes of international 10 11 Report of the International Law Commission on the Question of International Criminal Jurisdiction, UN Doc A/CN.4/15 (1950), reprinted in Yearbook of the International ... to solve the rule of law problem As to international criminal law, when the Nuremberg Charter was adopted in 1945, there was little by way of a set of international criminal laws appropriate for ... international law were not itself a kind of civil law, not indeed the law of a particular country, but of the world.3 In this universalist tradition, international law is seen as ‘a kind of civil law ,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 362; K Boustany, ‘Brocklebank: A Questionable Decision of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada’ (1998) Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 371; ... the ICC to consist of a mixture of judges with criminal trial experience and qualifications and those experienced in international criminal law and/ or human rights.34 In a number of respects the ... would proceed on the basis of 138            the relevant crime under international law, any associated rules of international law, and the national law of the state or states where...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... Women and Rape (1975), p 23, and cited in Simon Chesterman, ‘Never Again … and Again: Law, Order, and the Gender of War Crimes in Bosnia and Beyond’ (1997) 22 Yale Journal of International Law ... ‘Women’s Issues in International Criminal Law: Recent Developments and the Potential Contribution of the ICC’, in Dinah Shelton (ed.), International Crimes, Peace, and Human Rights: The Role of the International ... ‘Women’s Issues in International Criminal Law: Recent Developments and the Potential Contribution of the ICC’, in Dinah Shelton (ed.), International Crimes, Peace, and Human Rights: The Role of the International...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... number of ways, including the very notion of an International Criminal Court The second half of the twentieth century has seen the strengthening of human rights and of the humanitarian law of war and ... McCormack and Gerry Simpson (eds.), The Law of War Crimes: National and International Approaches (Kluwer Law International, London and The Hague, 1997), p at p 28 Prospects and issues for the International ... ‘Aspects of Criminal Responsibility for Violations of Laws of War’, in Antonio Cassese (ed.), The New Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict (Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, 1979), p 206 Prospects and issues...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... OEANE SAA SAAS String I String II VTE Laws of Eshnunna Laws of Hammurabi Laws of Lipit Ishtar Laws of Ur-Namma Middle Assyrian Laws Neo-Assyrian Neo-Babylonian laws Old Babylonian Orientalia Biblica ... end of the collection and to emphasize the final topic of festivals and cult (23:14–19) The placement of sections of apodictic law around the casuistic laws of 21:2–22:19 was done in imitation of ... between 740 and 640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and relatively continuous political control and cultural sway over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 07:54

... Whewell Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, and Director, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge John S Bell FBA Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University ... legality in criminal law It also raises a few other issues of legality in criminal law It discusses the relationship of legality and retroactivity in criminal law to issues of the rule of law more ... status of legality in international law – in international criminal law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law This is also the first book to survey legality and non-retroactivity...

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2015, 01:01

... Garner, ‘Punishment of Offenders Against the Laws and Customs of War’, 14 American Journal of International Law 70, 90 – 94(1920); John Fischer Williams, International Criminal Law , in John Fischer ... 1926 International Congress of Penal Law 1937 League of Nations Convention for the Creation of an International Criminal Court Concluding Observations Chapter II: The Development of the Law of ... section of Dr El Zeidy’s book is devoted to the work of the International Law Commission in preparing the draft codes of offences against the peace and security of mankind and the statute for an international...

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2015, 01:10

... adoption of only some of the provisions of the Convention are mandatory (e.g., adoption of the offences of active and passive bribery of a national public official, and the active bribery of foreign ... or of hiding such bribery (mandatory) ● ● ● UN Convention Active and passive bribery of national public officials (mandatory) Active bribery of a foreign and international public official (mandatory) ... (mandatory) Active and passive bribing judges and officials of international courts (mandatory) Passive bribery of foreign and international public officials (reservation is possible) Active and passive...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20

... Whewell Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, and Director, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge John S Bell FBA Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University ... aspects of international law from the system of international law and to recreate a new, open and non-colonial international law It is now hardly disputable that classical international law was ... de Vitoria and the Colonial Origins of International Law , 5(3) Social and Legal Studies, 321 336 (1996); ‘Francisco de Vitoria and the Colonial Origins of International Law , in Laws of the Postcolonial,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... School of Law St Louis, MO, USA John Dugard Member, International Law Commission, Geneva; Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and Professor of Public International ... Nature of International Criminal Law and Mens Rea Individual Criminal Responsibility in International Criminal Law Susceptibility of Defenses in International Criminal Law ... Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops (b.1960) is a Professor of (international) criminal law at Utrecht University He also practices international criminal law and extradition law at Knoops and Partners Lawyers,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... experience of Nuremberg and Tokyo and national criminal courts, and successfully integrates national and international criminal law, humanitarian law and human rights law At the same time the ICTY and ... 424 Foreword International criminal law is a new branch of law, with one foot in international law and the other in criminal law Until the Nuremberg trial, international criminal law was largely ... and substantive law of the International Criminal Court In recent times, in part as a result of disillusionment following the slow start of the International Criminal Court, the pendulum of international...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... School of Law St Louis, MO, USA John Dugard Member, International Law Commission, Geneva; Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and Professor of Public International ... Blakesley Cobeaga Law Firm Professor of Law William S Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NY, USA William Michael Reisman Myres S McDougal Professor of International Law and Jurisprudence, ... Chicago, IL, USA Diane Amann Professor of Law University of California School of Law Davis, CA, USA Mario Pisani Professor of Criminal Procedure Faculty of Law, University of Milan Milan, Italy Christopher...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20