IAFS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Japanese War Crimes, International Humanitarian Law, International Law Commission

• School: CU-Boulder
• Department: International Affairs
• Course: IAFS 3000
• Professor: Julie Arostegui

Document Summary

Individual criminal responsibility in international law individual criminal responsibility combines the elements of traditional international law with more modern approaches to human rights law and humanitarian law. After wwi, a commission was set up by the allied powers to punish those who had violated the laws of war. The treaty of versailles was created in 1919, and noted the right to bring individuals accused of crimes against the laws and customs of war before military tribunals. The charter annexed to the agreement for the prosecution and punishment of the major. War criminals and in 1945 specifically for individual responsibility for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The nuremberg tribunal, composed of four principal judges (us, uk, ussr and. France) and four alternates, was the first international criminal tribunal and marks the true starting-point for international criminal law. international law imposes duties and liabilities upon individuals and states as well.