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Washington and Lee University School of Law

Crimes against humanity

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From The Exile Files: An Essay On Trading Justice For Peace, Michael P. Scharf Jan 2006

From The Exile Files: An Essay On Trading Justice For Peace, Michael P. Scharf

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2005

Pluralizing International Criminal Justice, Mark A. Drumbl

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This Review Essay of Philippe Sands' (ed.) From Nuremberg to the Hague (2003) explores a number of controversial aspects of the theory and praxis of international criminal law. The Review Essay traces the extant heuristic of international criminal justice institutions to Nuremberg and posits that the Nuremberg experience suggests the need for modesty about what criminal justice actually can accomplish in the wake of mass atrocity. It also explores the place of one person's guilt among organic crime, the reality that international criminal law may gloss over criminogenic conditions in its pursuit of individualized accountability, the possibility of group sanction …


Collective Violence And Individual Punishment: The Criminality Of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2005

Collective Violence And Individual Punishment: The Criminality Of Mass Atrocity, Mark A. Drumbl

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There is a recent proliferation of courts and tribunals to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The zenith of this institution-building is the permanent International Criminal Court, which came into force in 2002. Each of these new institutions rests on the foundational premise that it is appropriate to treat the perpetrator of mass atrocity in the same manner that domestic criminal law treats the common criminal. The modalities and rationales of international criminal law are directly borrowed from the domestic criminal law of those states that dominate the international order. In this Article, I challenge this …


Beware Aggressors: In Times Of Conflict, The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You, Rachel M. Wittman Apr 2000

Beware Aggressors: In Times Of Conflict, The Eyes Of The World Are Upon You, Rachel M. Wittman

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

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