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Spandau Revisited: The Question Of Detention For International War Crimes, Mary Margaret Penrose Mar 2000

Spandau Revisited: The Question Of Detention For International War Crimes, Mary Margaret Penrose

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Drazen Erdemovic. The name may be unfamiliar to many outside the former Yugoslavia. The name will surely be unknown by most people outside the international community and those committed to the universal protection of human rights through criminal prosecution. Drazen Erdemovic is a confessed killer. Drazen Erdemovic has confessed to killing somewhere between seventy and one hundred unarmed Muslims in a mass execution as a member of the Bosnian Serb army in July 1995. In this regard, he is the first convicted defendant to stem from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) established by the United Nations …


The Role And Powers Of Defense Counsel In The Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court, Kenneth S. Gallant Jan 2000

The Role And Powers Of Defense Counsel In The Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court, Kenneth S. Gallant

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The Jurisdiction Of The International Criminal Court Over Nationals Of Non-Party States, Madeline Morris Jan 2000

The Jurisdiction Of The International Criminal Court Over Nationals Of Non-Party States, Madeline Morris

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This article questions the validity under international law of the provisions of the Treaty for an International Criminal Court (ICC) that purport to give the ICC jurisdiction over nationals of states that are not parties to the Treaty. The article examines two facially plausible theories for the validity of ICC jurisdiction over non-party nationals: that the ICC may exercise universal jurisdiction delegated to it by states parties, and that the ICC may exercise territorial jurisdiction delegated to it by states parties. Each of those theories is found to be flawed. The article then questions whether there is in fact any …