SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: International Criminal Court, Military Necessity, Deadly Force
15 Apr 2014
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The trial: truth/fact finding, to determine innocent or guilt, to restore" honour, dignity, money, to punish. We could only try in canada, someone that is a canadian citizen or people that committed crimes in canada. You cannot just kill people or drop bombs, etc. Every state in international law is independent and no legal system is inferior or superior to another. No state can interfere with another states legal system. Treaty of westphalia (1648: principle of stste sovereignty political self determination, principal of legal equality between states, principle of non-intervention unless mass number of people are dying (genocide) you cannot interfere with another states legal system. Authorization for use of military force sept. 11/2001. Only way to legally get away with murder: prevention of further crime or self-defense. Osama bin laden murder but in the war paradigm, they had the right to bomb them. Principle of state sovereignty political self determination.
