Introduction to International Criminal Law

Author: (USA)
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: Chapter 1 elaborates on the sources of international criminal law and the applicability of what the author refers to as the "different elements of international criminal law." Chapter 2 clarifies the subject of the discipline, which some criminal law scholars call the principle of personality (ratione personae). Chapter 3 discusses international crimes, termed by criminal law scholars as the principle of materiality (ratione materiae), and also examines the principle of legality, which criminal law scholars regard as a general issue in criminal law. Chapter 4 addresses general issues, as viewed by criminal law scholars, including criminal responsibility and its conditions of exemption. Chapter 5 discusses the main methods of enforcing international criminal law—the indirect enforcement system. Chapter 6 elaborates on other methods of enforcing international criminal law, namely the direct enforcement system, which narrates the history and evolution of international criminal justice until the establishment of the International Criminal Court. This will be discussed separately in Chapter 7. Chapter 8 discusses the new developments in international criminal law, specifically the mixed enforcement system of criminal justice. Chapter 9 covers procedural issues in international criminal law. Chapter 10 addresses international criminal justice in the era of globalization, including issues of responsibility, as well as the struggle of the international community against the practice of exempting punishment for international crimes under peremptory norms.