... 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 internationalcriminal law, comparative criminal law, and human ... under the spell ofinternationalcriminallawand the beauty of bringing an end to the culture of impunity”) LAWRENCE DOUGLAS, THE MEMORY OF JUDGMENT: MAKING LAWAND HISTORY IN TRIALS OF THE HOLOCAUST ... the development and dissemination ofinternationalhumanitarian law, the creation of the InternationalCriminal Court, and contribution to the Rome Statute Sandoz also details some of Bassiouni’s...
... practice and procedure ofinternationalcriminallaw Key Issues in InternationalCriminalLaw Goes on to explore issuesof importance such as universal jurisdiction, amnesties andinternationalcriminal ... University of Canterbury (New Zealand) from the University of Nottingham at the beginning of 2003 He teaches and researches in criminal law, internationalcriminallawand transnational criminal law. Together ... extensively on topics ofinternationalcriminallaw Robert Cryer is Professor ofInternationalandCriminalLaw at the University of Birmingham He is the author, inter alia, of Prosecuting International...
... of the Statute of the InternationalCriminal Court and the role of national courts, and offers a challenging insight into the future ofinternationalcriminal justice.This is an intelligent and ... written and lectured widely on issuesofinternationalcriminallawand 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 internationalcriminallaw before national andinternational courts, including the Pinochet case in the House of Lords and the Croatia v Federal Republic of Yugoslavia case in the International...
... 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 andof cials were deemed to have done...
... on behalf of the State, who was not an of cial or an Issuesof complexity, complicity and complementarity 39 organ of the State, andof whom, furthermore, in the face of the theory oflaw as it ... the history of human rights andhumanitarianlaw There was a paradigm shift It was the beginning of a new way of thinking about internationallaw 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...
... network of those who facilitate, plan and perpetrate the violations of human rights andhumanitarianlaw The concept of complicity is at the heart of contemporary questions of morality and ethics ... ‘Enforcing InternationalHumanitarian 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...
... development ofinternational law. 3 He described the way in which the substantive norms ofinternationallaw – both international human rights lawandinternationalhumanitarianlaw – have been influenced ... violations ofinternationalhumanitarianlaw committed in the territory of Rwanda and Rwandan citizens for such violations committed in the territory of neighbouring States, between January 1994 and ... principles ofinternationallaw recognised by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the judgment of the tribunal and directed the committee on the codification ofinternationallaw to treat...
... Protocols I and II of 1977 and the punishment of serious violation ofinternationalhumanitarian 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 Internationaland 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 Lawand Politics of the Pinochet Case’ (2000) 10 Duke Journal of Comparative andInternationalLaw 415, available at www .law. duke.edu/journals/djcil/articles/djcil10p415...
... suppression of crimes ofinternational 10 11 Report of the InternationalLaw Commission on the Question ofInternationalCriminal Jurisdiction, UN Doc A/CN.4/15 (1950), reprinted in Yearbook of the International ... to solve the rule oflaw problem As to internationalcriminal law, when the Nuremberg Charter was adopted in 1945, there was little by way of a set ofinternationalcriminal laws appropriate for ... internationallaw were not itself a kind of civil law, not indeed the lawof a particular country, but of the world.3 In this universalist tradition, internationallaw is seen as ‘a kind of civil law ,...
... Yearbook ofInternationalHumanitarianLaw 362; K Boustany, ‘Brocklebank: A Questionable Decision of the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada’ (1998) Yearbook ofInternationalHumanitarianLaw 371; ... the ICC to consist of a mixture of judges with criminal trial experience and qualifications and those experienced in internationalcriminallaw 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 ofinternational law, and the national lawof the state or states where...
... 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 ofInternationalLaw ... ‘Women’s Issues in InternationalCriminal 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 InternationalCriminal 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...
... number of ways, including the very notion of an InternationalCriminal Court The second half of the twentieth century has seen the strengthening of human rights andof the humanitarianlawof war and ... McCormack and Gerry Simpson (eds.), The Lawof War Crimes: National andInternational Approaches (Kluwer Law International, London and The Hague, 1997), p at p 28 Prospects andissues for the International ... ‘Aspects ofCriminal Responsibility for Violations of Laws of War’, in Antonio Cassese (ed.), The New HumanitarianLawof Armed Conflict (Editoriale Scientifica, Naples, 1979), p 206 Prospects and issues...
... 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...
... Whewell Professor ofInternational 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 criminallaw It also raises a few other issuesof legality in criminallaw It discusses the relationship of legality and retroactivity in criminallaw to issuesof the rule oflaw more ... status of legality in internationallaw – in internationalcriminal law, international human rights law, andinternationalhumanitarianlaw This is also the first book to survey legality and non-retroactivity...
... Garner, ‘Punishment of Offenders Against the Laws and Customs of War’, 14 American Journal ofInternationalLaw 70, 90 – 94(1920); John Fischer Williams, InternationalCriminalLaw , in John Fischer ... 1926 International Congress of Penal Law 1937 League of Nations Convention for the Creation of an InternationalCriminal Court Concluding Observations Chapter II: The Development of the Lawof ... section of Dr El Zeidy’s book is devoted to the work of the InternationalLaw Commission in preparing the draft codes of offences against the peace and security of mankind and the statute for an international...
... 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 andinternational public official (mandatory) ... (mandatory) Active and passive bribing judges and officials ofinternational courts (mandatory) Passive bribery of foreign andinternational public officials (reservation is possible) Active and passive...
... Whewell Professor ofInternational 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 ofinternationallaw from the system ofinternationallawand to recreate a new, open and non-colonial internationallaw It is now hardly disputable that classical internationallaw was ... de Vitoria and the Colonial Origins ofInternationalLaw , 5(3) Social and Legal Studies, 321 336 (1996); ‘Francisco de Vitoria and the Colonial Origins ofInternationalLaw , in Laws of the Postcolonial,...
... School ofLaw St Louis, MO, USA John Dugard Member, InternationalLaw Commission, Geneva; Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and Professor of Public International ... Nature ofInternationalCriminalLawand Mens Rea Individual Criminal Responsibility in InternationalCriminalLaw Susceptibility of Defenses in InternationalCriminalLaw ... Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops (b.1960) is a Professor of (international) criminallaw at Utrecht University He also practices internationalcriminallawand extradition law at Knoops and Partners Lawyers,...
... experience of Nuremberg and Tokyo and national criminal courts, and successfully integrates national andinternationalcriminal law, humanitarianlawand human rights law At the same time the ICTY and ... 424 Foreword Internationalcriminallaw is a new branch of law, with one foot in internationallawand the other in criminallaw Until the Nuremberg trial, internationalcriminallaw was largely ... and substantive lawof the InternationalCriminal Court In recent times, in part as a result of disillusionment following the slow start of the InternationalCriminal Court, the pendulum of international...
... School ofLaw St Louis, MO, USA John Dugard Member, InternationalLaw Commission, Geneva; Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa; and Professor of Public International ... Blakesley Cobeaga Law Firm Professor ofLaw William S Boyd School ofLaw University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NY, USA William Michael Reisman Myres S McDougal Professor ofInternationalLawand Jurisprudence, ... Chicago, IL, USA Diane Amann Professor ofLaw University of California School ofLaw Davis, CA, USA Mario Pisani Professor ofCriminal Procedure Faculty of Law, University of Milan Milan, Italy Christopher...