community
Overview page. Subjects: Social Sciences — Arts and Humanities.
Many sociological and anthropological definitions exist, but most tend to privilege some combination of small-scale, relative boundedness, strong affective ties, traditionalism, and...
Kadi Case
Reference Entry. Subjects: International Humanitarian Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 7024 words.
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Oil Platforms, Iran v United States, Judgment, Preliminary Objection, [1996] ICJ Rep 803, ICGJ 73 (ICJ 1996), 12th December 1996, International Court of Justice [ICJ]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Humanitarian Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 42928 words.
Whether the Court had jurisdiction ratione materiae under the Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Rights to entertain Iran's claim that United States naval forces unlawfully...
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Oil Platforms, Iran v United States, Judgment, merits, ICJ GL No 90, [2003] ICJ Rep 161, ICGJ 74 (ICJ 2003), 6th November 2003, International Court of Justice [ICJ]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Humanitarian Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 102466 words.
Whether an attack on Iranian oil platforms by United States naval forces was a necessary and proportionate measure of self–defence allowed under Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United...
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Oil Platforms, Iran v United States, Order, Counter-Claim, [1998] ICJ Rep 190, ICGJ 72 (ICJ 1998), 10th March 1998, International Court of Justice [ICJ]
Legal Material. Subjects: International Humanitarian Law; Public International Law; International Law; Law. 19794 words.
Whether the counter–claims presented by the United States were sufficiently specific and ‘directly connected’ to the subject matter of Iran's claim that the United States, such that they...
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The Voice of the International
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
March 2015; p ublished online January 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 10519 words.
When ‘we’ want to punish the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, who is ‘we’? The article embarks on an excursion where ‘we’ in the contexts of...
Beyond the ‘Global–Local Divide’
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
July 2016; p ublished online July 2016 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 12928 words.
This article examines the role of a new category of actors in the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) justice process, so-called ‘local intermediaries’, who have largely been ignored in...
Judging in the Name of Humanity
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
March 2015; p ublished online January 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 7816 words.
In this article, we look at ways in which international criminal tribunals, notably the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court,...
What Sort of Global Justice is ‘International Criminal Justice’?
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
March 2015; p ublished online January 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 9774 words.
International criminal justice is more often thought of as a form of criminal rather than global justice. Yet, criminal law on its own cannot provide a comprehensive theory of the justice...
Nino Cassese and the Early Stages in the Fight against Enforced Disappearances
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
September 2014; p ublished online June 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 1487 words.
Nino Cassese’s fundamental contribution to the early stages of the fight against the crime of enforced disappearance is charted in this brief homage. Commencing with Cassese’s strong stance...
The UN Inadequacies
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
September 2005; p ublished online September 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 4226 words.
The author describes the results of the UN Independent Inquiry on the Genocide in Rwanda, which he headed. The international community's reluctance to commit itself and its resources to the...
Courting Rwanda
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
September 2005; p ublished online September 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 5220 words.
This article aims to assess the contribution of the Outreach Programme at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The author introduces and discusses two general approaches or...
Doing Justice for the Liberian Victims of Mass Atrocity
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
May 2015; p ublished online March 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 3958 words.
The article takes the Belgian universal jurisdiction case against Martina Johnson, recently arrested for her alleged involvement in the Liberian civil war, as an example to analyse...
The Major Powers on Trial
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
September 2005; p ublished online September 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 8623 words.
Faced with incontrovertible evidence of the most clear-cut case of genocide possible, the international community failed to denounce the evil and to take action to stop the killings taking...
Beyond Symbolism
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
July 2017; p ublished online July 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 7762 words.
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In September 2016, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor issued a new policy paper detailing the Office of the Prosecutor’s (OTP)...
The First Steps of the Extraordinary African Chambers
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
March 2015; p ublished online January 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 10887 words.
On 8 February 2013, the Extraordinary African Chambers (EAC) were established in Senegal with the mandate of prosecuting the former Chadian dictator, Hissène Habré, for international crimes...
Justice as Identity
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
May 2018; p ublished online April 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 13484 words.
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Although the historical function of criminal courts tasked with adjudicating episodes of mass violence is well established, the precise purpose behind...
Offences against the Administration of Justice at the International Criminal Court
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
September 2017; p ublished online September 2017 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 17498 words.
Abstract
Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) was established to prosecute the most serious crimes of concern to the international community, around...
Journal of International Criminal Justice Prize 2017
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
May 2018; p ublished online July 2018 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 217 words.
Editorial
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
May 2014; p ublished online April 2014 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 542 words.
Editorial
in Journal of International Criminal Justice
September 2005; p ublished online September 2005 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Criminal Law; International Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law; Transnational Crime. 583 words.
