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General Guides and Resources for Public International Law
- GlobaLex Research guides to international law (by subject) and foreign law (by jurisdiction) from NYU's Hauser Global Law School Program.
- ASIL Research Guide to Public International Law An up-to-date guide to treaty and other public international law research with an emphasis on online resources. From the American Society of International Law.
Criminal Law
- ASIL Research Guide to International Criminal Law
- Research Guides to the International Criminal Courts for the Former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone From GlobaLex.
- Comparative Criminal Procedure: A Selected Bibliography From GlobaLex.
- International Criminal Court Legal Tools Provides access to documents important to international criminal law, including treaties, judgments and decisions, summaries of domestic criminal justice systems in many countries including relevant statutes or codes, and commentary on international criminal law and other aspects of international law.
Environmental Law
- ECOLEX: A Gateway to Environmental Law
- United Nations Environment Programme
- ASIL Research Guide to International Environmental Law
- A Basic Guide to International Environmental Legal Research From GlobaLex.
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
- OHCHR Jurisprudence Database Contains recommendations and findings from the various UN human rights committees that consider complaints from individuals.
- Refworld UNHCR's comprehensive information source on refugee status includes treaties, legislation and court decisions, as well as information organized by country and topic.
- European Court of Human Rights Pending cases, judgments, basic texts and a complete index to all ECHR judgments.
- Bayefsky.com: The United Nations Human Rights Treaties
- ICRC's Customary International Humanitarian Law Database A free online version of their two-volume publication.
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- Human Rights Library: Collections on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Commission on Human Rights From the University of Minnesota.
- ESCR-Net Caselaw Database Database of domestic, international, and quasi-judicial cases and decisions on economic, social and cultural rights.
- U.S. Department of State - Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
- Project Diana: An Online Human Rights Case Archive From Yale Law School.
- ASIL Research Guide to International Human Rights
- ASIL Research Guide to International Humanitarian Law
- International Human Rights Research Guide From GlobaLex.
- ICJ E-bulletin on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights International Commission of Jurist's free monthly publication of legal developments in the fields of counter-terrorism and human rights.
Intellectual Property
- WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization
- WIPO Lex Collection of intellectual property legislation (in English) from WIPO member countries.
- AIPPI - International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property An international NGO devoted to the "the development and improvement of intellectual property." The Questions/Committees section contains country-by-country reports on specific intellectual property law topics.
- European Patent Office
- U.S. Patent & Trademark Office General information, forms, and a free searchable patent and trademark database.
- U.S. Copyright Office Copyright basics, law, forms, and other materials available through the Library of Congress, the entity responsible for copyrights.
- ASIL Research Guide to International Intellectual Property Law
- IP Precedents Database Database of English translations of precedential domestic court decisions on IP topics; from the Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property.
Law of the Sea
- United Nations: Oceans and Law of the Sea
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- International Seabed Authority
- UVA Center for Oceans Law & Policy
- ASIL Research Guide to Law of the Sea
Trade, Investment or Economic Law
- GATT Documents Online From the WTO.
- GATT Digital Library From Stanford University.
- WorldTradeLaw.net
- International Trade Database: Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods From Pace University.
- Trans-Lex.org Research platform for transnational commercial law from the Center for Transnational Law, Cologne University, Germany.
- SICE - Foreign Trade Information System From the Organization of American States.
- United States International Trade Commission
- United States Trade Representative
- Harmonized Tariff Schedule
- ASIL Research Guide to International Economic Law
- ASIL Research Guide to International Commercial Arbitration
- Research Guide on the Harmonization of International Commercial Law From GlobaLex.
Women's Rights
- Women's Human Rights Resources From the University of Toronto.
- Women's Human Rights Documents From the University of Minnesota.
- Women's Rights Links From the University of Minnesota.
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International Criminal Law
A graduate course offered by the ANU Law School .
- Code LAWS8566
- Unit Value 6 units
- Offered by ANU Law School
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- Dr Wanshu Cong
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This course explores the origins, rationales, and institutional mechanisms and development of international criminal law, and discusses its current state and place in the modern international legal system in light of important recent developments. It introduces and examines the so-called “core crimes” of international criminal law, doctrines of individual criminal responsibility, and various judicial bodies enforcing international criminal law. It adopts a historical, philosophical and practical focus throughout to examine moral and jurisprudential dilemmas associated with bureaucratic and mass criminality and individual culpability. The course will also consider the broader functions of international criminal justice project and explore the politics intrinsic to this project as well as crisis and backlashes faced by international criminal law and tribunals.
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Synthesise and apply the key principles, concepts, and methodologies of international criminal law to analyse and propose solutions to legal problems.
- Reflect on the historical development, rationale, and institutional architecture of international criminal law.
- Differentiate and appraise the mandate and characteristics of different international criminal tribunals.
- Critically evaluate the roles and functions of international criminal law in global governance.
- Plan and execute a research-based project or piece of scholarship in the area of international criminal law.
- The proposed means of assessment for this course will provide students with at least two pieces of assessment, including one piece during the teaching period. More information about the means of assessment, including the relationship between the assessment and the learning outcomes of the course, will be available in the class summary and on the course WATTLE page. (100) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
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Classes offered in non-standard sessions will be taught semi-intensively with compulsory contact hours of approximately 26 hours of face to face teaching. The course will also require advanced preparation through assigned readings. In total, it is anticipated that the hours required for completion of this course (class preparation, teaching and completion of assessment) will not exceed 120 hours.
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Decision on validity of appeal of André Rwamakuba against decision regarding application of joint criminal enterprise to the crime of genocide pursuant to Rule 72(E) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, ICTR-98-44-AR72.4 370, 373 28.9.2004. A. Ch.
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg was the first court to apply international criminal law.. International criminal law (ICL) is a body of public international law designed to prohibit certain categories of conduct commonly viewed as serious atrocities and to make perpetrators of such conduct criminally accountable for their perpetration. . The core crimes under international law ...
law concerns individuals. In particular, international criminal law places responsibility on individual persons—not states or organisations—and proscribes and punishes acts that are defined as crimes by international law. International criminal law is a relatively new body of law, and aspects of it are neither uniform nor universal.
Taught by one of the world's leading experts in the field, this course will educate students about the fundamentals of international criminal law and policy. We will explore the contours of international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and piracy. We will examine unique modes of international criminal liability and specialized ...
The course structure will include the following topics: 1. Sources and principles of international criminal law 2. The concept of international criminal responsibility including individual responsibility, joint criminal enterprise and command responsibility 3. Aggression (crimes against the peace) 4.
Assignment: First Assignment The assignment for the first week is to read Golove and Hulsebosch, A Civilized Nation: The Early American Constitution, the Law of Nations, and the Pursuit of International Recognition, 85 NYU L Rev 932. We will discuss the first two parts on Tuesday, January 16th and the second half of the article on Thursday ...
International criminal law is the body of law that prohibits certain categories of conduct deemed to be serious crimes, regulates procedures governing investigation, prosecution and punishment of those categories of conduct, and holds perpetrators individually accountable for their commission. The repression of serious violations of ...
Learn about international criminal law, from Nuremberg to present-day cases. Explore crimes, liability, defenses, custody, and courtroom control. ... This course is very well structured, the assignments are great and the professor is explaining the content well and goes in great depth in answering some of the questions he poses at the beginning ...
company's criminal liability under the Rome Statute. M is incorporated in an ICC state party. Provide a brief response. In order to clarify the criminal liability of the CEO and the company M under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (hereafter: the ICC Statute), it must first be ascertained
IHL is a branch of International Criminal Law, the former applying during times of conflict and the latter covers all each of the massive crimes listed without regard to whether the crimes were committed during armed conflict. The Course will develop themes of substantive and procedural law as well as a general overview
International Criminal Law - 200220. Q3 2020. Questions for written essays / assistance while studying prescribed readings. Students will, on 14 July 2020, be allocated by the Lecturer one of the following essay questions as part of their assessment for the Unit.
International criminal law (ICL) codifies a body of law that defines international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of aggression, as well as the procedures to be applied before international courts and tribunals. These crimes often take place in the course of conflict, and hence relate directly to ...
Text: International Criminal Law: Cases and Commentary, Antonio Cassese, Oxford . University Press (2011) ISBN: 978--19-957678-4. Study Assignments: These assignments are subject to change. sent to all students by email. Aug 18 Introduction . Lecture on the Sources of International Criminal Law . Assign 1-45 and Cases
Provides access to documents important to international criminal law, including treaties, judgments and decisions, summaries of domestic criminal justice systems in many countries including relevant statutes or codes, and commentary on international criminal law and other aspects of international law.
The course looks at the rules, concepts, principles, institutional architecture, and enforcement of what we call international criminal law or international criminal justice, or, sometimes, the law of war crimes. The focus of the course is the area of international criminal law concerned with traditional "war crimes" and, in particular, four of the core crimes set out in the Rome Statute ...
International Criminal Law is the body of laws, agreements, and norms that govern international crimes and their suppression, as well as regulations that tackle conflict and cooperation between national criminal-law systems. ... Students of Lawsikho courses regularly produce writing assignments and work on practical exercises as a part of their ...
In the ethics of their free-world status, ICC judges are ready to use this power 2 Danner, Allison Marston, and Jenny S. Martinez. "Guilty associations: Joint criminal enterprise, command responsibility, and the development of international criminal law." California Law Review (2005): 75-169. 3 Akande, Dapo. "International law ...
ABN : 52 234 063 906. <p>This course explores the origins, rationales, and institutional mechanisms and development of international criminal law, and discusses its current state and place in the modern international legal system in light of important recent developments. It introduces and examines the so-called "core crimes" of ...
International Criminal Law Assignment - Free download as Word Doc (.doc / .docx), PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. it's an assignment dealing with International Criminal matters
Courts are required to be more proactive and hold the arbitral award only against standards of best practices in international law. Relatedly, the Ukrainian Supreme Court upheld the order of the Kyiv Appellate Court, wherein it had held that "the mere fact that the claimant is put on the [sanctions] list [. . .] ...
GENEVA (26 February 2024) - A UN expert today condemned the ongoing judicial harassment of Oleg Orlov, co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organisation "Memorial", in a politically motivated trial in the Russian Federation."I call on Russian authorities to immediately drop all criminal charges against Oleg Orlov, known for his unrelenting fight for human rights and research of ...
By April 20, of these 24, fourteen were sentenced on assault charges to 2 to 3.5 years in prison. One of them, Pavel Ustinov, was released from jail on his own recognizance on September 20 ...