International Law’s Specialised Regime and Normative Conflict: A Reflection on International Criminal Law

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Ahmed Linga
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In the international legal system, there exist fields of law that are characteristically specialised than the general sphere of international law. The term ‘special’, ‘specialised’ or ‘self-contained’ regime will be revisited in the present article vis-à-vis possible norms that conflict in the international legal arena. International criminal law, a discrete branch of international law will be thoroughly discussed as to reveal its nature as one of international law’s special regimes that may arguably contribute to the issue of normative conflict, and further, a problem of legal fragmentation. The concept of legal fragmentation will thus be highlighted as linked to international law’s normative conflicts. Considering that international criminal law is potentially a special regime of international law, one of its codified rules seems to have led to an emerged normative conflict involving the legal interaction between the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998’s treaty-based rule, and the international customary law rule. The severity of a legal conflict not only impacts the treaty law and customary law areas of international law but to a greater extent also undermines the coherence of the international legal system as a whole. Therefore, this article aims to analyse and expound on the apparent normative conflict of international law character that needs to be addressed, especially by the International Criminal Court being one of the prominent international judicial organs. Supposedly, when a normative conflict becomes severe, the issue of fragmentation of international law looms out and effective determination of related conflicting norms is indeed appealing.
国际法的专门化制度与规范冲突:对国际刑法的反思
在国际法律制度中,有些法律领域比一般国际法领域特别专门。“特别”、“专门”或“独立”制度一词将在本条款-à-vis中重新讨论在国际法律领域可能发生冲突的准则。国际刑法作为国际法的一个独立分支,将被彻底讨论,以揭示其作为国际法的一种特殊制度的性质,这种制度可能会导致规范冲突的问题,进而导致法律分裂的问题。因此,法律碎片化的概念将因与国际法的规范冲突有关而得到强调。考虑到国际刑法可能是一种特殊的国际法制度,其编纂规则之一似乎导致了涉及1998年国际刑事法院罗马规约的条约基础规则与国际习惯法规则之间的法律相互作用的规范性冲突。法律冲突的严重程度不仅影响到国际法的条约法和习惯法领域,而且在更大程度上也破坏了整个国际法律制度的一致性。因此,本文旨在分析和阐述明显的国际法性质的规范冲突,特别是国际刑事法院作为重要的国际司法机构之一需要解决的问题。据推测,当一种规范冲突变得严重时,国际法的分裂问题就会隐隐约约地出现,有效地确定有关的相互冲突的规范确实很有吸引力。
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