... Absence of a Specific Ruleof International Criminal Law; PrevalenceoftheGeneralRuleonDuressinCaseofKillingDuress as a Defense to War Crimes: Free Will and Policy Considerations ... also into this antagonistic position ofthe international criminal defense counsel In conclusion, this study considers whether the assertion of Meron is justified: Inthe matter ofthe defense of ... the judges, onthe basis of their individual knowledge, integrated international norms of due process contained in various international human rights law conventions and general principles of...
... fingerprints are upon every major international criminal law instrument ofthe past 45 years including the Apartheid Convention, the Torture Convention, and the Rome Statute for the International ... published by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the International Association of Penal Lawin Paris, and the International Institute of Criminal Science in Siracusa They then examine the theory ... how the Commission made significant contributions to the evolution of international law relating to the characterization of international conflicts and the definitions of crimes against humanity...
... organization contrary to Section ofthelawThe definitions ofthe offences under thelaw were broadly derived from existing instruments relevant to international criminal law ‘Crimes against the Jewish ... member ofthe Canadian delegation for the negotiation ofthe Rome Statute and she is the author of several publications onthe ICC, international criminal law and international cooperation in criminal ... grasp of international law than any among the prosecution.These Japanese counsel were intent on examining the validity ofthe trial in positive international law For example, when the prosecution...
... Meetings ofthe International Law Commission Concerning the Question of International Criminal Jurisdiction 6.4 The 1951 Committee on International Criminal Jurisdiction 6.5 The 1953 Committee on International ... Military Tribunal The Principle of Complementarity inthe Drafting History ofthe Genocide Convention The Role ofthe International Law Commission inthe Development ofthe Principle of Complementarity ... Conferences ofthe International Law Association 1925 Inter-Parliamentary Union Conference 1926 International Congress of Penal Law 1937 League of Nations Convention for the Creation of an International...
... 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 ‘horizontal’ ... by the International Law Commission and scrambled to participate inthe Rome Conference of 1998 for the creation of an international criminal court Attention remained focused onthe International ... Chambers ofthe Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and, of course, the International Criminal Court – are also examined Thelawofthe International Criminal Court, contained in its primary instruments dealing...
... Introduction: What is International Criminal Law? 1.1 International criminal law 1.2 Other concepts of international criminal law 1.3 Sources of international criminal law 1.4 International criminal law ... participation inthe investigation stage ofthe proceedings inthe appeal ofthe OPCD against the decision of Pre-Trial Chamber I of 7.12.2007 and inthe appeals ofthe OPCD and the Prosecutor against the ... Judgment on victim participation inthe investigation stage ofthe proceedings inthe appeal ofthe OPCD against the decision ofthe Pre-Trial Chamber I of 3.12.2007 and inthe appeals ofthe OPCD...
... criminal law before national and international courts, including the Pinochet caseinthe House of Lords and the Croatia v Federal Republic of Yugoslavia caseinthe International Court of Justice ... awareness of these developments and of their implications, which linked the creation ofthe International Criminal Court to the epochal trial held at Nuremberg in 1946 (at which leading figures inthe ... the Solomon Islands inthe negotiation ofthe Statute ofthe International Criminal Court x Preface Seven months later, on 27 May 1999, President Slobodan Milosevic ofthe Federal Republic of...
... the central purpose ofthe Tribunal was not to conform to existing principles in international law but to establish new rules of international conduct and agreed boundaries inthe violation of ... this still left the difficulty of how to include the terror and racism ofthe regime in any indictment None ofthe prosecution teams wanted to focus only onthe waging of war, and the crimes that ... Jackson succeeded in making the waging of aggressive war into a substantive crime in international law, then the Soviet Union was equally guilty in its attacks on Poland in September 1939 and on...
... building the foundation for contemporary international lawon war crimes, and contemporary conventions on human rights The International The Nuremberg trials: international lawinthe making 29 Criminal ... 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 duties to individuals involving criminal ... interests of justice, referred to inthe Charter ofthe Tribunal inthe context of trials inthe absence ofthe accused,7 was the public interest in trying the defendant responsible for the preparation...
... ofthe act of participation coupled with a conscious decision to participate by planning, instigating, ordering, committing, or otherwise aiding and abetting inthe commission of a crime Secondly, ... order In preparation for the entry into force ofthe Statute ofthe International Criminal Court, dozens of states around the world are considering national legislation to enable them not only ... obligations to their nationals under international law, but governments also have duties towards people in other countries They have, inthe words ofthe recent report ofthe International Commission...
... the subject ofthe complaint ‘by another court’.13 The ‘principle of complementarity’ means that, inthe emerging institutional architecture of international criminal justice, the jurisdiction ... for the adoption of new international conventions which would flesh out more detailed rules criminalising these acts These rules were developed inthe framework of an international legal order in ... systems If nothing else, that is one clear consequence ofthe creation ofthe International Criminal Court:4 in establishing it, the international community has determined that criminal courts (as...
... not alter its conclusion.59 Nor did international conventions establishing jurisdiction, but silent onthe question of immunities The reasoning ofthe ICJ is thin, to say the least The Court appears ... essentially the same The judgments ofthe House of Lords (a national court) in Pinochet and ofthe ICJ in Yerodia reflect, in my opinion, a struggle between two competing visions of international law ... commitment to rooting out impunity for the gravest international crimes The other vision, that reflected inthe judgment ofthe ICJ, sees the rules of international law as being intended principally to...
... of international 10 11 Report ofthe International Law Commission onthe Question of International Criminal Jurisdiction, UN Doc A/CN.4/15 (1950), reprinted in Yearbook ofthe International Law ... Genocide Convention of 1948, repeated in Article V ofthe much less accepted Apartheid Convention of 1973 Instead of international jurisdiction, the suppression treaties worked onthe basis of national ... Relating to the Protection of Victims of NonInternational Armed Conflicts (Protocol II), Geneva, June 1977, 1125 UNTS 609 International Convention onthe Suppression and Punishment ofthe Crime of...
... was the increasing role of justice ministries inthe negotiations These delegates brought a range of professional concerns about the actual functioning of an ICC and its interaction with national ... jurisdiction inthe interests of maximising support for the controversial idea of an ICC Indeed, the principal point ofthe exercise was to get the idea of an ICC Statute to the stage of active discussion ... within the Court’s jurisdiction without seeking any prior approval. The Prosecutor may initiate investigations proprio motu onthe basis of information on crimes within the jurisdiction of the...
... about the work ofthe UN International Law Commission in preparing the Draft Statute ofthe ICC, and the transformation of that draft into the final Statute as it emerged at Rome inthe summer of ... crimes, provides certain protections to victims of these crimes, and calls for the inclusion of women inthe different organs ofthe Court The inclusion of these gender provisions inthe Rome Statute ... the International Criminal Court The period for submitting nominations began at the first meeting ofthe Assembly of States Parties in September 2002 with the close ofthe nomination period in...
... immunity from the jurisdiction ofthe Court Upholding theruleof law: the creation of order Besides the moral condemnation of these crimes at the international level, the ICC will serve a second, and ... have considered some ofthe functions ofthe ICC in its pursuit of ‘international criminal justice’ I would like to conclude this lecture by focusing onthe international aspirations ofthe ICC ... and Offences against theLawof Nations’.39 Inthe last century the US was a leading force inthe establishment ofthe Permanent Court of Arbitration; a chief architect ofthe United Nations, the...
... showing the mechanism of Fermi-level pinning by extrinsic states (a) When EF,m is above the pinning level, (b) When the EF,m is below the extrinsic pinning level The conduction band edge and the ... transmission electron microscope xxiii Ch 1: Introduction Chapter Introduction 1.1 Overview Since the invention ofthe first integrated circuit (IC) in 1958, the semiconductor industry has undergone ... need to be addressed, including the dielectric/channel interface engineering and the S/D junction formation [77] Moreover, integration of these materials into the conventional Sibased CMOS process...
... remaining judges ofthe Chamber may order that the hearing ofthecase continue inthe absence of that judge for a period of not more than three days us, inthe absence of one ofthe judges ofthe ... treatment of these issues inthecaselawofthe Tribunal Gabrielle McIntyre, in Chapter , examines the role of human rights case law, beginning with the much-celebrated dismissal of precedents ofthe ... direct bearing onthe determination ofthe guilt or innocence ofthe accused, does not, inthe view ofthe Appeals Chamber, constitute “routine matters” within the meaning of Subrule (E)… e...
... International criminal law 1.2 Other concepts of international criminal law 1.3 Sources of international criminal law 1.4 International criminal law and other areas oflaw 1.5 A body of criminal lawThe Objectives ... 01.07.1999 Convention ofthe Organization ofthe Islamic Conference on Combating International Terrorism reprinted in International Instruments Related to the Prosecution and Suppression of International ... meaning and transnational law Transnational law, with its focus on domestic criminal law and on methods of inter-State cooperation inthe sphere of criminal law, remains the body of ‘international...
... about the existence of secondary rules inthecaseof international law 20 Win-chiat Lee As inthe municipal case, the secondary rules governing international criminal law would be a set of mostly, ... approaches in theorizing about the law. 1 The difficulty in separating the two approaches is especially acute inthecaseof international criminal law, not only because international criminal law is ... legal theorists onthe conceptual and normative grounding of international criminal law Philosophers and other theorists are only just beginning to write about the emerging field of international...