Essays about: "Crimes Against Humanity"

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1. 21. Corporate Criminal Liability in International Criminal Law "ex nihilo nihil fit"

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Armina Savanovic; [2017]
   Keywords : Corporate Criminal Liability; Criminal Law; International Criminal Law; STL; ICC; ICTY; ICTR; Jurisdiction; Universal Jurisdiction; Sanctions for Legal Persons; International Human Rights Law; Human Rights; Atrocity Crimes; Genocide; Crimes Against Humanity; Grave Crimes; Theory of Identification; Vicarious Liability; Corporate Complicity; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The Nuremberg Charter introduced corporate criminal liability into international law and the great American Chief Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson gave a promise that any legal person who commits crimes prescribed by international law shall be prosecuted and punished according to international criminal law. However, during this period of time, a corporation was never prosecuted per se as the sitting judges did not seem to have the will to dwell on the establishment of the elements of crime that needed to be satisfied in order to impute criminal liability on a corporate body. READ MORE

3. 22. Competing Standards on the Definition of Enforced Disappearance - A victims-oriented perspective for national implementation

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Sebnem Erener; [2016]
   Keywords : international human rights law; international criminal law; international humanitarian law; icc; enforced disappearance; committee on enforced disappearance; torture; conflict; complementarity; victims-oriented perspectives; victims; justice; redress; reparation; right to justice; right to truth; al-Senussi; international criminal code; inter-american court of human rights; latin america; crimes against humanity; intention; special intention; elements of crime; International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance; the Rome Statute; Basic Principles and Guidelines; People s Convention; due process; unwilling; unable; criminal law; substantive law; procedural law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : There are competing standards regarding the definition of the crime of “enforced disappearance” under international law. When criminalizing enforced disappearance at the national level as part of their obligations under international law, States which adopt a more narrow definition of enforced disappearance provided in the Rome Statute require victims of enforced disappearance to prove the existence of an additional “special intention” of perpetrators. READ MORE

4. 23. R2P as a global principle?: A case study of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

   Author : Elin Elmgren; [2015-02-17]
   Keywords : Responsibility to Protect; R2P; humanitarian intervention; national sovereignty; United Nations UN ; Democratic People’s Republic of Korea DPRK ;

   Abstract : The principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has been described as revolutionary in its affect on the relationship between the concepts of humanitarian intervention and national sovereignty by placing an even greater emphasis on the issue of human rights. However, R2P has proven to be difficult to apply in certain cases. READ MORE

5. 24. Rape as a weapon of war? - A critical legal analysis of the definition of rape and the concept of rape as a weapon of war

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

   Author : Sofia Lundgren; [2015]
   Keywords : våldtäkt som stridsmedel; rape; rape as a weapon of war; folkrätt; public international law; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Systematic rape of women in wartime is an ancient issue. For centuries, rape was seen as an inevitable by-product of war and it is not until recently that the international community has recognized rape as a weapon of war. READ MORE

6. 25. Individual Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression: Tracking Down the Leaders of a State

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Author : Nikola Hajdin; [2015]
   Keywords : leadership clause; unlawful use of force; international humanitarian law; international criminal law; Aggression; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : The Nuremberg Charter introduced the crime of aggression into international law. The American Chief Prosecutor Justice Robert Jackson gave a famous promise that offenders who commit acts of aggression shall be prosecuted and international criminal law would be applied against them. READ MORE