System Criminality in International Law (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Nollkaemper, Andre

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

International crimes, such as crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes, are committed by individuals. However, individuals rarely commit such crimes for their own profit. Instead, such crimes are often caused by collective entities. Notable examples include the 'dirty war' in Argentina in the 1970s and 1980s, the atrocities committed during the Balkan Wars in the early 1990s and the crimes committed during the ongoing armed conflicts in the Darfur area in Sudan. Referring to Darfur, the Prosecutor of the ICC noted in 2008 that, although he had indicted a few individuals, 'the information gathered points to an ongoing pattern of crimes committed with the mobilisation of the whole state apparatus'. This book reviews the main legal avenues that are available within the international legal order to address the increasingly important problem of system criminality and identifies possible improvements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511590412
• Artikelnr.: 38209614

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction A. Nollkaemper; 2. The policy context of international
crimes H. C. Kelman; 3. Why organizations kill - and get away with it: the
failure of law to cope with crime in organizations M. Punch; 4. Men and
abstract entities: individual responsibility and collective guilt in
international criminal law G. Simpson; 5. A historical perspective: from
collective to individual responsibility and back A. Gattini; 6. Command
responsibility and organisationsherrschaft: ways of attributing
international crimes to the 'most responsible' K. Ambos; 7. Joint criminal
enterprise and functional perpetration H. van der Wilt; 8. System
criminality at the ICTY E. van Sliedrecht; 9. Criminality of organisations
under international law N. Jørgensen; 10. Criminality of organisations:
lessons from domestic law - a comparative perspective A. Eser; 11. The
collective accountability of organized armed groups for system crimes J.
Kleffner; 12. Assumptions and presuppositions: state responsibility for
system crimes I. Scobbie; 13. State responsibility for international crimes
A. Zimmermann and M. Teichmann; 14. Responses of political organs to crimes
by states N. White; 15. Conclusions and outlook A. Nollkaemper and H. van
der Wilt.