{"title":"I International Criminal Justice Institutions: From the First Ad Hoc Tribunals and Their Precedents to the ICC and Beyond","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter is both an institutional and historical analysis of International Criminal Justice. Even though the International Military Tribunals in Nuremberg and Tokyo are widely perceived as the birth of International Criminal Justice, the chapter starts with historical precedents of these tribunals: for instance, the Versailles Peace Treaty (VPT) as the first international instrument providing for the prosecution of war criminals. The international Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals are then examined in detail and from several perspectives – except the procedural perspective that is dealt with by Volume III. These tribunals laid the groundwork for subsequent Tribunals and mechanisms. Thus, the chapter proceeds with the establishment of the UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, the International Criminal Court and the more recent mixed or hybrid Tribunals. The focus of the analysis lies on the development of those tribunals, their institutional setting, and main aspects of both their legal regime and developed case law. The practice of the ICC is especially evaluated against the background of criticism regarding its alleged African focus or even bias. The last section on hybrid tribunals also takes a broader look at other investigative and accountability mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126968784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VI Attempt as a Special Form of Individual Criminal Responsibility","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter first explains why attempt – an incomplete offence lacking the fulfilment of the actus reus of the respective crime – should be punishable at all and whether/how it is punishable under International Criminal Law. This chapter develops the essential elements of attempt liability on the basis of comparative law with a view to most important national legal systems . It analyses in detail the provision in the Rome Statute and proposes a ‘formula of approximation’ with regard to ‘commencement of execution’ stage (that is the moment of punishability) of attempt. It then applies this attempt formular to the international core crimes. Last but not least, abandonment of attempt is also discussed.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"228 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VIII Grounds Excluding Responsibility (‘Defences’)","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides first the groundwork of any analysis of ‘defences’, namely the broad or narrow meaning of the concept (substantive vs. procedural defences) and the different types or forms of defences, including their effect and procedural implications (standard and burden of proof). This contributes to a better understanding and proper interpretation that suggest major differentiation criteria with regard to ICL. Then, a detailed analysis of the substantive and procedural defences relevant in ICL is offered. This analysis starts with conceptual explanations (e.g. regarding the relevant point in time) and examines, on the basis of a thorough comparative law research, most important and well known defences like mental disease, intoxication, self-defence, duress and necessity, mistake of fact and law, superior order, immunities, but also looks at less prominent ones such as consent, reprisals or abuse of process.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132366490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"II Concept, Function, and Sources of International Criminal Law","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter lays the conceptual groundwork for the following chapters, and is written in a both philosophical and jurisprudential ink. It starts with a critical analysis of international criminal law as both concept, discipline and placeholder for an anti-impunity agenda. Certain types of crimes are separated into core crimes on the one hand and treaty-based/transnational crimes and supranational crimes on the other hand. The chapter then proceeds along the lines of the jurisprudential foundations of crime, criminal law and punishment. The author advocates for an autonomous punitive power of the international community as the basis of an autonomous international criminal law. Criminalization is based on the protection of fundamental legal interests or the prevention of serious harm. Punishment has an expressive, norm-stabilizing purpose and is intertwined with more general goals of International Criminal Justice. International Criminal Law’s sources range from customary international law over international treaty law to general principles. The DNA of the chapter is thus an amalgamation of comparative legal concepts with the peculiarities of a ius puniendi that lies at the hear of enterprise of international criminal law.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127840859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"IV Individual Criminal Responsibility","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter starts with the universal recognition of the concept of individual criminal responsibility in ICL as perhaps the most important result of its historic precedents of Nuremberg and Tokyo. It offers a profound analysis of the ‘historic’ case law on individual criminal responsibility, namely the post WW II case law (Nuremberg, Tokyo, the one by the allied powers and Germany), but also relevant case law on other (mainly) State-sponsored criminality (especially in Latin America). It then turns to the ‘modern’ law of individual criminal responsibility and thus analyses the law and jurisprudence of the UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, of the mixed tribunals and, with a particular emphasis, of the ICC. In terms of doctrine a special focus lies on the forms of participation which enable us to hold the masterminds of the international crimes accountable, that is, joint criminal enterprise (JCE) and indirect perpetration by way of an organization (Organisationsherrschaft). In this respect, the chapter deals with what is probably the most important field of the ongoing theoretization of International Criminal Law.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130277135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VII The Subjective Requirements of International Crimes","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter reviews first Article 30 of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statute that contains the general mens rea rule for crimes under the Statute (Articles 5-8bis) on the basis of a thorough comparative law inquiry. . After some terminological clarifications (e.g. regarding the meaning of the term ‘intent’), it examines the objects of reference of Article 30 (material elements as well as conduct, consequence and circumstance) in order to be able to apply them to the crimes of the Statute; also, the standard or degrees of the mental element are analysed. In the second section it is inquired whether there are additional or different subjective requirements provided for by the crime definitions, such as most prominently the specific intent (dolus specialis) requirement in genocide; further, the modes of participation (Article 25(3)) going beyond Article 30 are explored.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132901781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"III Imputation and General Structure of Crime in International Criminal Law","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the general part (GP) and special part (SP) of the criminal law, which encompasses the general rules of attribution or imputation and the relevant international crimes. It applies these concepts to International Criminal Law, especially adjusting the rules of imputation and individual responsibility to the peculiar features of the commission of crimes in a macrocriminal, collective contextIt also recounts how international criminal law had been applied with only a rudimentary system for the imputation of criminal responsibility, largely undertheorized as compared to national criminal justice systems. In fact, the chapter shows how little room was given to criminal law or even doctrinal considerations during the negotiations on ICL instruments, especially the Rome Statute of the ICC. Thus, the ICL-making process appears as largely unprincipled, policy driven, and pragmatic. It is argued however, that applied ICL is ultimately criminal law and thus must be guided by its liberal principles, especially legality, culpability and fairness.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122191584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V Omission, in Particular Command Responsibility","authors":"Ambos Kai","doi":"10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780192844262.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter continues the effort of this Volume to combine both comparative legal concepts with unique features of International Criminal Law. It is thus a direct result of the foundational work in Chapter II: International Criminal Law’s focus on individual criminal responsibility leads to an expressive purpose of punishments that again requires a criminalization of remote behavior by commanders and State leaders. This criminalization is based on the centuries old debate revolving around liability for omission. The chapter thus starts with a general explanation of the concept of omission vis-á-vis action. The author answers the question of whether a general omission liability exists in International Criminal Law affirmatively, recognizing a general principle of law, albeit with strict requirements. Drawing on the results from Chapter II, the author argues in favor of a criminalization of omission based on the prevention of harm and the protection of important legal goods/interests. The basis for this criminalization/liability is the respective person’s duty to act.","PeriodicalId":165706,"journal":{"name":"Treatise on International Criminal Law","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132256612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}