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    Principles of international criminal law / Gerhard Werle, Florian Jessberger ; in cooperation with Julia Geneuss [and six others].

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    • Title:Principles of international criminal law / Gerhard Werle, Florian Jessberger ; in cooperation with Julia Geneuss [and six others].
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    • Author/Creator:Werle, Gerhard, author.
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Jessberger, Florian, author.
      Geneuss, Julia, 1979- author.
    • Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Criminal procedure (International law)
      Criminal law--International unification.
    • Edition:Third edition.
    • Description:xxxiii, 676 pages ; 25 cm
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780198703594 (hardback)
      0198703597 (hardback)
      9780198703600 (paperback)
      0198703600 (paperback)
    • Contents:Machine generated contents note: A. Historical Evolution of International Criminal Law
      I. Prologue: The Versailles Peace Treaty
      II. Breakthrough: The Law of Nuremberg and Tokyo
      1. Nuremberg Charter and Trial
      a. Creation of the Nuremberg Tribunal
      b. Provisions of the Nuremberg Charter
      c. Nuremberg Judgment
      d. Contemporary and Current Assessments
      2. Tokyo Charter and Trial
      3. Control Council Law No. 10
      III. Confirmation and Standstill: International Criminal Law During the Cold War
      IV. Renaissance: The Establishment of the United Nations' ad hoc Tribunals
      1. Yugoslavia Tribunal
      2. Rwanda Tribunal
      V. Consolidation: The ICC Statute and the Establishment of the International Criminal Court
      1. Previous Efforts to Create a Permanent International Criminal Court
      2. Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rome and the Entry into Force of the ICC Statute
      3. Review Conference in Kampala
      4. Significance of the ICC Statute
      VI. Current Developments
      1. Establishment of 'Internationalized' Courts (Hybrid Courts)
      2. Implementation of (Substantive) International Criminal Law
      B. Concepts, Aims, and Legitimacy
      I. Notions of 'International Criminal Law' and 'Crimes Under International Law'
      II. Aims and Legitimacy of International Criminal Law
      III. 'International Element' of Crimes Under International Law
      IV. Legitimacy of International Criminal Law and Purposes of Punishment
      V. Nullum Crimen, Nulla Poena Sine Lege in International Criminal Law
      VI. Principle of Personal Culpability
      C. International Criminal Law and the International Legal Order
      I. International Criminal Law and State Responsibility
      II. Crimes Under International Law and Treaty-Based Crimes
      III. International Criminal Law, Supranational Criminal Law, Cooperation in Criminal Matters, and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction
      IV. International Criminal Law and Protection of Human Rights
      1. Protection of Human Rights Through International Criminal Law
      2. Function of Human Rights in Limiting International Criminal Law
      V. International Criminal Law and the Law of International Criminal Procedure
      D. Sources and Interpretation
      I. Sources of Law
      1. International Treaties
      2. Customary International Law
      3. General Principles of Law
      II. Subsidiary Means for Determining the Law
      III. Individual Sources
      1. ICC Statute
      2. ICTY and ICTR Statutes
      3. Nuremberg and Tokyo Charters
      4. Control Council Law No. 10
      5. Hague Regulations, Genocide Convention, Geneva Conventions
      6. Decisions of International Courts and Tribunals
      7. Resolutions of the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council, and Reports of the UN Secretary-General
      8. International Law Commission Drafts and Comments
      9. Drafts and Comments of International Scholarly Associations
      10. Decisions of National Courts
      11. National Legislation
      12. Military Manuals
      IV. Interpretation
      V. Determining and Interpreting the Law Through the International Criminal Court
      E. Universal Jurisdiction, the Duty to Prosecute, Transitional Justice
      I. Universal Jurisdiction and the Power to Prosecute and Punish
      II. Duty to Prosecute
      1. Duty to Prosecute by the State of Commission
      2. Do 'Third States' Have a Duty to Prosecute?
      III. Transitional Justice and Crimes Under International Law
      1. Options for Dealing with the Past
      2. Non-Prosecution
      F. Relationship Between International and Domestic Courts
      I. 'Direct' and 'Indirect' Enforcement
      II. Exclusive Jurisdiction (Nuremberg Model)
      III. Precedence of International Criminal Tribunals (Model of the United Nations' ad hoc Tribunals)
      IV. Precedence of Domestic Courts
      V. Complementarity (Model of the International Criminal Court)
      G. Prosecution of Crimes Under International Law by International and 'Internationalized' Courts
      I. International Criminal Court
      1. Jurisdiction
      2. Organization of the Court and Parties to the Proceedings
      3. Proceedings
      4. Admissibility Test
      5. International Criminal Court in Practice
      II. ad hoc Tribunals
      1. Yugoslavia Tribunal
      2. Rwanda Tribunal
      III. 'Internationalized' Courts (Hybrid Courts)
      H. Prosecution of Crimes Under International Law by Domestic Courts
      I. Prosecution of Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes after 1945
      II. Prosecution of Crimes Under International Law in Rwanda and Former Yugoslavia
      III. Crimes Under International Law in Central and South America
      IV. Crimes Under International Law in Iraq
      I. Domestic Implementation
      I. Need for Implementation
      II. Options for Implementation
      1. Complete Incorporation
      a. Direct Application
      b. Reference
      c. Copying
      2. Non-Incorporation-Applying 'Ordinary' Criminal Law
      3. Modified Incorporation
      4. Combinations
      III. Forms of Incorporation
      1. Amendment of Existing Laws
      2. Self-Contained Codification
      IV. Interpretation of International Criminal Law in a Domestic Context
      V. (German) Code of Crimes Against International Law
      1. Historical Background
      2. Aims
      3. Structure
      4. General Principles
      5. Genocide
      6. Crimes Against Humanity
      7. War Crimes
      8. Violations of Duty of Supervision
      9. Aggression
      10. Universal Jurisdiction
      11. (German) Code of Crimes Against International Law in Practice
      A. Towards a General Theory of Crimes Under International Law
      I. Concept of Crimes Under International Law
      II. Context of Organized Violence (International Element)
      III. Structure of Crimes Under International Law
      1. Step One: Material Elements
      2. Step Two: Mental Element
      3. Step Three: Grounds for Excluding Responsibility
      4. Requirements for Prosecution
      B. Material Elements
      I. Conduct
      II. Consequence and Causation
      III. Circumstances
      C. Mental Element
      I. Jurisprudence of the ad hoc Tribunals
      II. Article 30 of the ICC Statute
      1. Structure
      2. Standard Requirements: 'Intent and Knowledge'
      a. Intent as Regards the Criminal Conduct
      b. Intent and Knowledge as Regards the Consequences of the Conduct
      c. Knowledge as Regards the Circumstances of the Crime
      3. Departures from the Standard Requirements
      a. Sources of Other Provisions Within the Meaning of Article 30
      aa. 'Otherwise Provided' in the ICC Statute
      bb. 'Otherwise Provided' in the Elements of Crimes and in Customary International Law
      b. Effects of Other Provisions Within the Meaning of Article 30 of the ICC Statute
      aa. Affirmation and Clarification
      bb. Expansion of Criminal Liability
      cc. Narrowing of Criminal Liability
      III. Context of the Crime and the Mental Element
      IV. Conclusion
      D. Individual Criminal Responsibility
      I. Towards a Doctrine of Modes of Participation in International Criminal Law
      1. International Case Law and Customary Law
      2. ICC Statute
      II. Commission
      1. Commission as an Individual
      2. Joint Commission
      a. Joint Criminal Enterprise (ad hoc Tribunals)
      b. ICC Statute
      3. Commission Through Another Person
      4. Indirect Co-Perpetration and Joint Indirect Perpetration
      III. Instigation and Ordering
      1. Instigation
      2. Ordering
      IV. Assistance
      V. Assisting the Commission of a Crime by a Group
      E. Superior Responsibility
      I. Superior-Subordinate Relationship
      1. Military Commanders
      2. Civilian Superiors
      II. Mental Element
      III. Failure to Take Necessary Measures
      1. Preventive Measures
      2. Repressive Measures
      3. Necessary and Reasonable Measures
      IV. Commission of Crime as a Result of Violation of Duty of Control
      F. Grounds for Excluding Criminal Responsibility
      I. Historical Development of Defences in International Criminal Law
      1. International Case Law
      2. ICC Statute
      II. Self-Defence
      1. Self-Defence Situation
      a. Use of Force
      b. Defensible Interests
      2. Self-Defence Measures
      3. Mental Element
      4. Individual Self-Defence and a State's Right of Self-Defence
      III. Necessity and Duress
      1. Threat to Life or Limb
      2. Necessary and Reasonable Measures
      3. Intention of Averting a Threat
      4. Balancing of Interests
      5. Self-Induced Necessity
      6. Limits on Duress and Necessity in Cases of Special Duty to Assume Danger
      IV. Mistake
      1. Mistake of Fact
      2. Mistake of Law
      V. Superior Orders
      1. Basic Positions
      2. International Case Law and Customary International Law
      3. Article 33 of the ICC Statute
      VI. Mental Disease or Defect
      VII. Intoxication
      1. Destruction of the Capacity to Appreciate or Control Conduct
      2. Exclusion of Responsibility for Voluntary Intoxication?
      VIII. Other Grounds for Excluding Responsibility
      G. Inchoate Crimes
      I. Conspiracy
      II. Planning and Preparation
      III. Attempt and Abandonment
      H. Omissions
      I. Official Capacity and Immunity
      I. Immunity and International Criminal Law
      II. Irrelevance of Official Capacity
      III. (Limited) Immunity for Heads of State and Government, Foreign Ministers, and Diplomats
      IV. Summary
      J. Multiplicity of Offences
      I. International Case Law
      II. Same Conduct
      1. Cumulative Charging
      2. Multiple Convictions
      III. Sentencing
      K. Requirements for Prosecution
      A. Introduction
      I. Phenomenon of Genocide
      Contents note continued: II. History of the Crime
      III. Structure of the Crime
      IV. Protected Interests
      B. Material Elements
      I. Protected Groups
      1. Criteria for Group Classification
      2. National Groups
      3. Ethnic Groups
      4. Racial Groups
      5. Religious Groups
      6. Other Groups
      II. Individual Acts
      1. Killing
      2. Causing Serious Bodily or Mental Harm
      3. Inflicting Destructive Conditions of Life
      4. Imposing Measures to Prevent Births
      5. Forcibly Transferring Children
      6. Is So-Called 'Ethnic Cleansing' Genocide?
      III. Must the Individual Act Form Part of a Collective Genocidal Activity?
      C. Mental Element
      I. Intent and Knowledge (Article 30 of the ICC Statute)
      II. Specific Intent to Destroy
      1. Term 'Intent'
      2. Group as the Object of Destructive Intent
      3. Intent 'to Destroy'
      4. Intent to Destroy and Multiple Participants
      5. Evidentiary Issues
      D. Incitement to Commit Genocide
      I. Structure of the Crime
      II. Material Elements
      III. Mental Element
      E. Multiplicity of Offences
      A. Introduction
      I. Phenomenon of Crimes Against Humanity
      II. History of the Crime
      III. Structure of the Crime
      IV. Protected Interests
      B. Contextual Element (Attack on a Civilian Population)
      I. Civilian Population as the Object of the Crime
      II. Widespread or Systematic Attack
      1. Attack
      2. Widespread or Systematic Character
      III. 'Policy Element'
      IV. Perpetrators
      V. Mental Element
      C. Individual Acts
      I. Murder
      II. Extermination
      III. Enslavement
      1. Definition
      2. Forced Labour
      3. Trafficking in Persons
      IV. Deportation or Forcible Transfer of Population
      V. Imprisonment
      VI. Torture
      VII. Sexual Violence
      1. Rape
      2. Sexual Slavery
      3. Enforced Prostitution
      4. Forced Pregnancy
      5. Enforced Sterilization
      6. Other Forms of Sexual Violence
      VIII. Persecution
      1. Material Elements
      2. Mental Element
      a. Political, Racial, or Religious Grounds
      b. Other Grounds
      IX. Enforced Disappearance
      X. Apartheid
      XI. Other Inhumane Acts
      D. Multiplicity of Offences
      A. Introduction
      I. Historical Development
      1. Laws of War and International Humanitarian Law
      2. National Criminal Law to Implement International Humanitarian Law
      3. International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law
      II. International Humanitarian Law and Criminal Sanctions
      III. War Crimes in Non-International Armed Conflict
      IV. Protected Interests
      V. Categories of War Crimes
      B. Overall Requirements
      I. Armed Conflict
      II. Character of Armed Conflict
      1. International Armed Conflict
      a. Inter-State Conflict
      b. Intra-State or Transnational Armed Conflicts of an International Character
      aa. Wars of National Liberation
      bb. Other Intra-State or Transnational Conflicts
      c. Applicability of the Law of War Crimes Despite No Use of Force
      2. Non-International Armed Conflict
      3. Mixed Armed Conflicts
      III. Applicability of the Law of War Crimes, Ration Temporis and Loci
      IV. Nexus Between the Individual Act and the Armed Conflict
      V. Mental Element
      1. Perpetrator's Awareness of the Conflict
      2. Wilfulness in the Law of War Crimes
      C. War Crimes Against Persons
      I. Victims of War Crimes Against Persons
      1. Persons Protected in the Geneva Conventions
      a. Protected Persons in International Conflicts
      b. Protected Persons in Non-International Conflicts
      c. Mental Element
      2. Persons Protected by Other Provisions
      II. Killing
      III. Killing and Wounding Combatants Who Have Laid Down Their Arms
      IV. Offences of Mistreatment
      1. Torture
      2. Causing Suffering or Injury to Health (International Conflict)
      3. Mutilation
      4. Biological, Medical, or Scientific Experiments
      5. Inhuman or Cruel Treatment
      V. Sexual Violence
      1. Rape
      2. Other Serious Forms of Sexual Violence
      VI. Humiliating and Degrading Treatment
      VII. Compelled Service in Military Forces and Operations of War (International Conflict)
      1. Compelled Service in the Forces of a Hostile Power
      2. Compelled Participation in Operations of War
      VIII. Slavery
      IX. Forced Labour
      X. Punishment Without Regular Trial
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      3. Collective Punishment
      XI. Unlawful Confinement (International Conflict)
      XII. Delay in Repatriation (International Conflict)
      XIII. Hostage-Taking
      XIV. Deportation or Forcible Transfer
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      XV. Transferring a Party's Own Civilian Population into Occupied Territory (International Conflict)
      XVI. Conscription, Enlistment, and Use of Child Soldiers
      D. War Crimes Against Property and Other Rights
      I. Offences of Expropriation
      1. Conduct
      2. Object of the Conduct
      3. Extent of Expropriation
      4. Mental Element
      5. Military Necessity
      II. Offences of Destruction
      1. Scope of the Criminal Provisions
      2. Conduct
      3. Object and Extent of the Offence and Military Necessity
      4. Mental Element
      III. Encroachments on Other Rights
      E. Employing Prohibited Methods of Warfare
      I. Introduction
      1. Attacks on Non-Military Targets
      2. Other Prohibited Methods of Warfare
      II. Attacks Against the Civilian Population
      1. Material Elements
      a. Civilians
      b. Civilians Directly Participating in Hostilities
      2. Mental Element
      3. Targeted Killings
      III. Terror Against the Civilian Population
      IV. Attacks Against Civilian Objects
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      V. Attacks Against Specially Protected Objects
      VI. Attacks on Persons and Objects Using the Emblems of the Geneva Conventions
      VII. Attacks Causing Disproportionate Incidental Damage
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      VIII. Attacks on Undefended Non-Military Objects
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      IX. Perfidious Killing or Wounding
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      X. Improper Use of Insignia
      1. International Conflict
      a. Improper Use of Flags of Truce
      b. Improper Use of Enemy Flags, Insignia, and Uniforms
      c. Improper Use of Distinctive Emblems of the Geneva Conventions
      d. Improper Use of Protected Insignia of the United Nations
      e. Serious Consequences
      2. Non-International Conflict
      XI. Giving No Quarter
      XII. Starvation of the Civilian Population
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      XIII. Use of Human Shields
      1. International Conflict
      2. Non-International Conflict
      F. Use of Prohibited Means of Warfare
      I. Introduction
      II. International Armed Conflict
      1. ICC Statute
      a. Use of Poison or Poisoned Weapons
      aa. Term 'Poison'
      bb. Poison Gas as Poison?
      cc. Chemical and Biological Weapons of Mass Destruction
      b. Use of Poison Gas and Similar Substances
      c. Use of Prohibited Ammunition
      d. Catch-All Offence of Article 8(2)(b)(xx) of the ICC Statute
      2. Customary International Law
      a. Nuclear Weapons
      b. Chemical Weapons
      c. Biological Weapons
      d. Conventional Weapons
      III. Non-International Armed Conflict
      1. ICC Statute
      2. Customary International Law
      G. War Crimes Against Humanitarian Operations
      H. Multiplicity of Offences
      A. Prohibition of Aggression Under International Law
      I. Developments Prior to World War II
      II. Current Status
      B. Criminal Responsibility Under Customary International Law (War of Aggression)
      I. Nuremberg and the Criminality of Aggressive War
      II. Material Elements
      1. Aggressive War
      2. Other Acts of Aggression
      3. Perpetrators
      4. Criminal Acts
      III. Mental Element
      IV. Jurisdiction
      C. Crime of Aggression in the ICC Statute After Kampala
      I. Definition of the Crime of Aggression
      1. Act of Aggression by a State
      2. Crime of Aggression
      II. Involvement of the Security Council
      III. Exercise of Jurisdiction
      IV. Activating the Court's Jurisdiction
      V. Complementarity
      A. ICC Statute
      B. ICTY Statute
      C. ICTR Statute
      D. SCSL Statute
      E. London Agreement of 8 august 1945
      F. Nuremberg/IMT Charter
      G. Tokyo/IMTFE Charter
      H. CCL No. 10
      I. Nuremberg Principles
      J. (German) Code of Crimes Against International Law.
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