LAWS 2105 Study Guide - Final Guide: International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Realpolitik, Consequentialism

136 views11 pages

Document Summary

Cases can be referred to the office of the prosecutor by the state itself (e. g. uganda) or by the security council (e. g. the state itself (e. g. uganda) or by the security council (e. g. sudan): nuremberg tribunal: (international military tribunal [imt] at nuremberg) a series of trials held in. Utilitarianism is one form of consequentialism: customary international law: state practice binding on states due to a period of uniform practice based on a sense of legal obligation, deontological: (approach to ethics) the notion that acts are considered intrinsically good or bad without reference to their consequences, doctrine of necessity: this refers to the notion that one harmful act may be justifiable to prevent a second, far more harmful act, enlightenment: the european enlightenment, also known as the age of reason, is usually said to have started between 1660 and 1685, and to have ended with the french revolution.