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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"International criminal law"”.
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FORCED DISPLACEMENT IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
… specific and coherent object of analysis within international criminal law. Existing legal scholarship has either approached the subject from a wider human rights perspective or tended to focus on specific political, historical or geographical contexts, rather than on displacement as a category …
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Corporate criminal liability and international criminal law
The study investigates the question of the international criminal liability of corporations. The issue of the involvement of private corporations in international crimes has been a matter of controversy for decades. Over the years, several scholars have commented in favour or against the …
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"limits of national amnesty legislation under international criminal law"
International law traditionally refers to the actions of sovereign states as subjects of international law and thus provides no punishment for individuals. 1 It has however been established as a general rule since the Nuremberg trials2 after World War II that international law in certain cases also …
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International criminal law and the African girl child soldier: does the international criminal law framework provide adequate protection to the African girl child soldier?
… aims to answer the question: does the international criminal law framework provide adequate protection to the African girl child soldier? The motivation for the choice of this question came about in my final year of LLB. I conducted research on crimes against humanity committed by Boko …
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International criminal law and refugee protection: The interplay between international criminal law and Article 1F(A) of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees
… to the Status of Refugees is the centre piece of international refugee protection. It consolidates previous refugee instruments thereby providing a comprehensive codification of refugee rights internationally. Whilst assuring basic civil and social rights to millions of refugees worldwide, the …
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The right to be present at trial in international criminal law
International criminal law considers the accused’s right to be present at trial to be a key component of his or her right to a fair trial at international and internationalised criminal courts and tribunals. The central research question this thesis explores is: what does the accused’s right to be …
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The interests of justice in the practice of international criminal law
Among the concepts that apply within the international criminal justice system the ‘interests of justice’ frequently emerges. This apparently intuitive concept appears in several statutes, conventions, regulations, codes and legislative tools in general. The ‘interests of justice’ has been …
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Hybrid courts and their impact on the development of substantive international criminal law
… or fragmenting effects on substantive international criminal law. The first section (Chapter 2), it will examine what is to be understood by the notion of a hybrid court. This will be followed by an analysis of the hybrid courts that have been established thus far. Furthermore, the …
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An examination of the limits of national amnesty legislation under international criminal law
… payments. Such actions can be brought in the law of delict. However, this paper suggests that actions for damages in the social welfare context may be better suited to administrative law because it is more far reaching than delictual damages. It is suggested, however, that the manner in which …
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Complicity in international criminal law: A fragmented law in need of a new approach
Since the advent of the concept of complicity in international crimes in the years following the end of World War 2, the international jurisprudence has had difficulties in conclusively establishing the content of this concept. To that effect, the ICTY, ICTR, SCSL, STL, and the ICC’s jurisprudence …
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Consistency of the interpretation and implementation of command responsibility and its components in international criminal law
… implementation of ‘command responsibility’ in international criminal law. It closely examines the development of command responsibility as a norm under international criminal law. It then scrutinises the consistency of interpreting and implementing this doctrine under the current jurisprudence …
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How to prove a role of Customary International Criminal Law: Re-imaging a Definition of CIL
… difficulties in its application in the area of international criminal law. In Chapter Two, I will contemplate the modern theories of CIL and illustrate the circular nature of both the modern and traditional doctrines. In Chapter Three, I will re-imagine a definition of CIL that attempts to break …
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International Crimes as Familiar Spectacles: Socially Constructed Understandings of Atrocity and the Visibility Politics of International Criminal Law
… play a major role in identifying these international crimes. The “visibility politics” resulting from this heavy reliance on aesthetic factors in turn, influence social interactions through which shared understandings of these crimes are developed, resulting in shared understandings of …
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Toward improved understanding and interaction between forensic science and international criminal law in the context of transitional justice.
International criminal justice-is part of a coordinated effort to achieve transitional justice in response to social trauma, human rights' abuses, mass atrocities, civil war and genocide. Criticaliy, criminal trials are believed to contribute to a notion oftruth through producing a record of the …
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