Barboza, Julio Keywords: International Law Commission | International criminal law | International Criminal Court | Mots clefs: Commission du droit international | Droit pénal international | Cour pénale internationale | bjt5 | ABSTRACT In his course, Julio Barboza, Professor at the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, intends to deal with the principal infringements on international criminal law and to follow them from the Nuremberg trials to their formulation in the Statute of a Permanent Criminal Court. Professeur Barboza st…

Graven, Jean Keywords: Crimes against humanity | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Crimes contre l humanité | bjt10 | ABSTRACT Crimes Against Humanity, writes Jean Graven in the introduction to his course, are as old as humanity. However, the legal concept is new. Because it presupposes a state of civilization, which recognizes the laws of humanity, of human rights, or of the human being as such, and recognizes the respect for the individual and human communities even if they are enemies. The author begins hi…

V. Pella, Vespasian Keywords: States | National security | Criminal offences | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Etats | Sécurité | Délits | Droit pénal international | ABSTRACT In this study, Vespasian V. Pella examines the extent of criminal protection afforded to the fundamental interests of the State. After an overview of the crimes against the personality of the State, the author studies the criminal protection of the interests of the State in positive law: the crimes against the international personality of the…

Exc. M. Claude Jorda, S. Keywords: International Criminal Court | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Cour pénale internationale | Tribunal pénal international pour l%27ex-Yougoslavie | Droit pénal international | ABSTRACT In this course, held at The Hague Academy of International Law, Mr. Jorda, former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, tries to see which elements from the ICTY experience could be used in the International Criminal Court. After presenting an interim balance of th…

Glaser, Stefan Keywords: Criminal offences | Criminal liability | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Droit pénal international | ABSTRACT Stefan Glaser explains that the international criminal law borrows, mostly, the ideas and the principles from domestic criminal law or more precisely from its doctrine. That is why the author first refers, in his presentation, to the concepts and rules accepted in the field of criminal law. By taking them as a basis for his considerations, he explains the concept, the role,…

David, Éric Keywords: International Criminal Court | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Cour pénale internationale | Droit pénal international | ABSTRACT David Éric, Professor at the Free University of Brussels, proposes a detailed study of the main characteristics of the International Criminal Court. He examines successively the submission of the ICC to the consent of the States Parties (its creation, its jurisdiction, cooperation between the Court and the States, exceptions to the hold of the States on the Co…

Donnedieu de Vabres, H. Keywords: International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg | Legal principles | Aggression | War crimes | Crimes against humanity | Conspiracy | Criminal liability | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Nuremberg | Criminels de guerre | Crimes de guerre | Droit pénal international | Principes de droit | ABSTRACT Without reproducing the exact order of the indictment drawn up by the four public prosecutors or the exact order of the judgment, H. Donnedieu de Vabres takes up various charges made at the Nuremberg trial. He focus…

Roux, J.-A. Keywords: Judicial assistance | International criminal law | Mots clefs: Assistance judiciaire | Droit pénal international | ABSTRACT J.-A. Roux devotes the course to the aid that States provide to each other in the fight against crime, that is to say, the support they lend themselves to fight the criminals who have disturbed the public peace in their territory. To do this, the author successively examines police aid, legal aid, and legislative aid. The author then raises the issue of the internationalization of aid and the unification of criminal law. J.-A. Roux consacre s…

V. A. Röling, B. Keywords: Laws of war | Judicial competence | International criminal law | International humanitarian law | Mots clefs: Droit de la guerre | Compétence étatique | Droit pénal international | Droit humanitaire international | ABSTRACT B.V.A. Roeling's course discusses the relationship between the law of war and the repression of war criminals during the post-war period. The author successively examines the right and duty to punish war criminals, the jurisdiction of the court and some excuses or mitigating circumstance…