International Criminal Law

International Criminal Law

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Main source: Duff, Antony, “Theories of Criminal Law”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = .

We have focused so far, explicitly or implicitly, on the domestic criminal law of nation states—a criminal law that typically claims jurisdiction only over crimes committed within the state’s territory, by and against citizens of or visitors to that state (for some of the complications here, see Hirst 2003; Duff 2007: ch. 2.2). However, recent years have seen also seen significant developments in international criminal law, culminating in the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002 (see Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998; Cassese 2003: 340-405). Behind a range of particular questions about the proper scope of international criminal law (over what kinds of crime should the ICC have jurisdiction), about the relationship of the ICC to domestic courts and systems of criminal justice, and about the appropriate procedures for international criminal trials, lies a deeper question about the moral authority or legitimacy of any such court: by what moral right does it calim jurisdiction over this range of wrongs and over these wrongdoers? This question becomes particularly acute in relation to crimes whose impact is intra- rather than inter-national. Crimes committed by one state against another, or against another’s population (war crimes, the crime of aggression; Rome Statute arts. 5, 8), are clearly better dealt with by an international court: but why should such a court have jurisdiction over ‘widespread or systematic attack[s]’ committed by a state’s officials against its own citizens (Rome Statute art. 7, defining ‘crimes against humanity’)? What could give such a body the moral authority to hold those who commit such wrongs to account—and just what kinds of wrong can it claim as its business?

One answer to these questions appeals to the impersonal demand of retributive justice that those who commit such wrongs should not escape punishment: the ICC acts in the name of justice. Another answer is that the ICC acts in the name and on behalf of the more local polity within and against which the crimes were committed, when the domestic courts will not or cannot act effectively. Another answer takes seriously the idea of ‘crimes against humanity’, and portrays the ICC as acting in the name and on behalf of ‘humanity’: those who commit such wrongs must answer not merely to their particular polities, but to humanity itself, since their crimes ‘deeply shock the conscience of humanity’, and are ‘of concern to the international community as a whole’ (Rome Statute, Preamble). Each of these answers is problematic: a central task for theorists of criminal law is to work towards a clearer understanding of the questions to which such answers are offered (see generally Altman & Wellman, 2004; Luban, 2004; May 2005; Besson & Tasioulas 2008).

In International humanitarian law Treaties

International humanitarian law (IHL) is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.

 

CRIMINAL REPRESSION Treaties

  • Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1945, 08.08.1945
  • United Nations Principles for the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1946, 11.12.1946
  • Convention Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1968, 26.11.1968
  • European Convention on Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes, 1974, 25.01.1974
  • Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1993, 25.05.1993
    Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, 1994, 08.11.1994
  • Statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, 17.07.1998
  • Statute of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, 2002, 16.01.2002
  • Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, amended article 8, 2010, 10.06.2010
  • Amendment to the Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter, 2010, 11.06.2010

Cross References of International Criminal Law in International Law

Crimes committed against women in conflict zones, information on International Human Rights in this legal Encyclopedia.B.2.c.

Iran designated as jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern, information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal Encyclopedia6.A.2.b.(1)(ii) Sanctions for transnational criminal organizations, information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal Encyclopedia6.A.7 Atrocities prevention, information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal Encyclopedia7.C.1.

U.S. policy against transferring detainees to countries where it is determined they are more likely than not to be tortured, information on Nationality, Citizenship and Immigration in this legal Encyclopedia8.A.3.c.(2)

International Criminal Law

Contents of International Criminal Law

Contents of this subject matter include:

  • Objectives and Interests
  • Origins, Institutions and Actors
  • Jurisdiction, Admissibility and Immunity
  • Core Crimes
  • Modes of Liability
  • Defenses and the Accused

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Further Reading

  • The entry “international criminal law” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press

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