POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: United Nations General Assembly, International Law Commission, United Nations Security Council Resolution 808
26 Apr 2017
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Lecture 17: from international humanitarian law to international criminal law (february 2nd, 2017) Class outline: review, targeted killing (sterio, genocide, thought experiments, goldsmith, feldman. International criminal law: crash course in criminal law, history, nuremberg see case document, the ad hoc tribunals see case document. Primarily murder with the intent to destroy a group (racial / ethnical / religious: ex. Krstic case, international criminal tribunal of the former yugoslavia case. War crimes directed at non-combatants: any systematic attack against a population = easier to prove than cah", because war crimes require the existence of armed conflcits. Evidence for cah only against civilians: e. g. any violence against a person / group due to race, religious, political or social orientations. **note different definitions in rome statue vs. icty & ictr (international criminal tribunal of the former yugoslavia & international criminal tribunal for. Thought experiment #2 (violations of state sovereignty / states against ngos)
