POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Actus Reus, Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
26 Apr 2017
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Lecture 18: international criminal law continued (february 9th, 2017) Class outline: krstic, rome statute, us and the icc, thought experiments, hybrid courts, canadian law. Prosecutor v radislav krstic, icty appeals chamber, 2004 case: article 4 (icty statute) is the punishment for genocide, genocide was codified after holocaust in the genocide convention. Rome statute treaty (only important factors needed to be understood to prove cases) Nexus between armed conflict and underlying crime. Incorporate: elements of the domestic criminal justice system of the affected states into the international structure of the tribunals. Is not created by the sc: it is an agreement between the un and sc. Therefore, do not benefit from chapter vii enforcement powers (like the. Idea was that sierra leone did not have the infrastructure to prosecute war criminals: brutal decade-long civil war ended with the signing of the 1999 lom peace.
