the politics of international criminal law

... well as a discussion of the Statut eof the International Criminal Court and the role of national courts, and offers a challenging insight into the future of international criminal justice.This ... ell Professor of International Law and Director of the Lauterpacht Research Cent re for International Law, University of Cambridge, as well as a member of Matrix Chambers. He was a Member of the ... Yugoslavia case in the International Court of Justice. He served as legal adviser to the Solomon Islands in the negotiation of the Statute of the International Criminal Court. viii Notes on the contributors

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... representative of Nazi racism. Yet Streicher had held no of? ??ce in the SS racist apparatus, knew nothing of the details of the Holocaust, and had The Nuremberg trials: international law in the making ... before the end of the war. This last death accelerated the decision to abandon altogether the idea of putting Axis leaders in the dock. Italian names had been included on the early lists of defendants, ... merit their inclusion, but the final list left out men like Otto Thierack, the SS minister of the interior and former head of the Nazi People’s Court, and the SS general, Kurt Daluege, head of the

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... though the international treaties they were applying made no mention of criminal law, the international law of war created international crimes. The defence had further argued that international law ... ‘violations of the laws and customs of war’ The simplicity of this definition masks the complexity of the detail of what actually constitutes a violation of the laws and customs of ... national military law. The international laws of war, such as the Hague Convention of 1907, already prohibited resort to certain methods of waging war. But, in the words of the judgment: the Hague Convention

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... explained the details of this part of the negotiations in A. Clapham, ? ?The Question of Jurisdiction under International Criminal Law over Legal Persons: Lessons from the Rome Conference on an International ... 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 courts of the victims or even the ... ‘Enforcing International Humanitarian Law: Catching the Accomplices’ (2001) 83 Review of the International Committee of the Red Cross 439–59. single actors fail to capture the complexity of the phenomena

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... affirmed the 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 ... national courts. Otherwise, human nature with the present Statute and the Rules of Procedure and Evidence of the International Tribunal. Article 8 of the ICTR Statute provides: 1. The International ... – and international law in particular – will never be a panacea for the ills of the world.And there are other means for dealing with the gravest crimes: they can be ignored; they can be the subject

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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 ... Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Article 6; Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,Article 7(2); Statute of the International Criminal ... under Belgian law concerning the punishment of grave breaches of the Geneva Convention of 1949 and their Additional Protocols I and II of 1977 and the punishment of serious violation of international

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... 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 mmission on the Question of International Criminal ... international law; as if 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 ... elements of any significance.15 The 1 973 Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid treated apartheid as a separate... sands The scope of the international

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... law? ??s standards were fully met. The problem of acceptability of a universal international criminal court Above all, perhaps, there was the problem of the accept- ability of an 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 an international criminal court ... over the accused. Only then would the ICC proceed independently, although probably with the assistance of the ceding state. Conceptually, the case would proceed on the basis of The drafting of the

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... interpretation of the definition of genocide. The same is likely to happen for other crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court. It remains to be seen whether the Elements of Crimes will provide the intended ... played out. At the same time, the limited subject-matter jurisdic- tion of the Court (a function of the automaticity of its The drafting of the Rome Statute 155 jurisdiction over the three crimes) ... particular states. The substantive criminal law The effect of these extensive definitional provisions is taken even further in the Elements of Crimes, adopted in 2000. 39 For the most part these follow

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... immunity from the jurisdic- tion of the Court. Upholding the rule of law: the creation of order Besides the moral condemnation of these crimes at the international level, the ICC will serve a second, ... to the overall theme of these lectures Under the rubric of international criminal justice I have had the opportunity of discussing the prospects that the ICC holds for the ... Approaches (Kluwer Law International, London and The Hague, 1997), p. 1 at p. 29. 26 See the Preamble to the Statute of the International Criminal Court. mock the dead and make cynics of the living’.

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... conviction: the OECD’s failed Harmful Tax Competition initiative The financial crisis and the politics of international tax cooperation The domestic politics of international tax cooperation in the United ... follows focuses on one dimension of the international policy response to the financial crisis – albeit a critically important one The detailed analysis of the politics of international tax cooperation ... analysis of one aspect of the regulatory response to the financial crisis – international tax cooperation – this book examines the ways in which the ongoing crisis has influenced patterns of international

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... Brief History of International Criminal Law and International Criminal Court Cenap Çakmak A Brief History of International Criminal Law and International Criminal Court Cenap Çakmak International ... Background: Evolution of International Criminal Law, Individual Criminal Accountability, and the Idea of a Permanent International Court Part I The Evolution of International Criminal Law: A Historical ... that international law is based on the consent of states In other words, states, and the intergovernmental organizations they create, are the main units of international law, which thus governs the

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... implementation of two sets of laws: the Laws on the Reform of the Payment... studies the reform of the judicial system and the reform of the civil service OUTLINE OF THE ARGUMENT ... administration of East Timor by UNTAET, focusing on the establishment of the judicial system and the reform of the civil service At the end of each chapter, the implications of the ... 4 discusses the UNMIK administration of Kosovo, analysing the reform of the judicial system and the debate about the privatization laws Chapter 5 analyses the international

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... 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, ... discipline of international law is further reflected by the structure of many of the major textbooks of international law, which introduce the subject by outlining the problem ... League of Nations 115 Introduction 115 The creation of the Mandate System 119 vii viii c ontents TheLeagueofNationsandthenewinternationallaw123 The Mandate System and colonial problems 136 The Mandate

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... divided the United States from the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute of the Court, in partic- ular the role of the Security Council, the powers of the prosecutor, the questions ... about the politics of international law, not the ‘letter of the law . It explores how politics conditions international law as an institution, and, most 17 ‘Legalization and World Politics , International ... collaborative volumes. The aim of the series is to publish the best new scholarship in International Studies from Europe, North America, and the rest of the world. The Politics of International Law adopt...

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... FBA 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, ... to the history of international law, illuminating the imperial character of the discipline and its enduring significance for peoples of the Third World. antony anghie is Professor of Law at the ... sovereign rather than the Pope. Vitoria further undermines the position of the Church by refuting another justification for Spanish conquest of the Indies: the argument that the Emperor is lord of the...

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... account of the varieties of institutional form and the nature of the policy area, but the unique features of the American system com- pound the problem and beg the question of the significance of the ... research. The fields that it covers are: studies of law in action; the sociology of law; the anthropology of law; cultural studies of law, including the role of legal discourses in social formations; law ... 7,inconclusion, summa- rizes the range of lawyer roles found in the study and presents in further detail the connection between the empirical model of lawyering and the network perspective on regulation....

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... jurisprudence of these tribunals. The jurisprudence of other tribunals is not, however, ignored. The law of Nuremberg and Tokyo features prominently, and the law and structures of the other international ... Article 7(1) of the ICTY Statute; Article 29 of the Law on the Establishment of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic ... of assistance to the growing body of national lawyers engaged in the practice of international criminal law before domestic courts. As the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court gives...

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... power. 12 And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination of the sub-human races of the world or the Wnal establishment ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters, as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of their desires but the rightness and justness of their claims ... determine their moral justiWability or lack thereof. Whether the wartime allies did enough to assist victims of the Nazi holocaust; whether America should have dropped the atomic bomb on Japan; whether...

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... nullius – as if they had no biological fathers. With no link between fathers and fetuses, no inheritance of harm could be attributed to the father’s use of drugs. The absence of fathers in debates ... in the dominant paradigm of fertility and reproduction, a shift generated by the development of the ‘seductive egg’ theory. 119Between fathers and fetuses concentrated primarily on the eVects of ... detailed discussion of the rise of the concept of fetal rights and fetal protectionism can be found in Daniels, 1993.) After a brief discussion of the social construction of maternity and paternity, I analyse the...

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