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Opportunities And Challenges Seeking Accountability For War Crimes In Palestine Under The International Criminal Court's Complementarity Regime, Thomas Obel Hansen
Opportunities And Challenges Seeking Accountability For War Crimes In Palestine Under The International Criminal Court's Complementarity Regime, Thomas Obel Hansen
Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is currently conducting a preliminary examination of the situation in Palestine, involving allegations against Israeli authorities and military personnel as well as what the Prosecutor refers to as “Palestinian armed groups.” The preliminary examination creates a framework for advancing accountability norms in the Palestinian context and globally for international crimes committed by States with significant resources. However, the road to accountability is anything but straightforward. Indeed, several challenges relating both to the applicable legal framework and broader policy issues, could delay—or potentially even undermine—the accountability process, if not properly understood and managed. One particularly important …
Empowering United States Courts To Hear Crimes Within The Jurisdiction Of The International Criminal Court, Douglass Cassel
Empowering United States Courts To Hear Crimes Within The Jurisdiction Of The International Criminal Court, Douglass Cassel
Journal Articles
United States courts have only incomplete and uneven jurisdiction, most acquired piecemeal and only in recent years, to prosecute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity committed outside our borders. Recent developments in international law and practice-especially the heightened commitment of democracies including the United States to end impunity for atrocities, and the imminent prospect of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) with worldwide jurisdiction-suggest the need to expand and rationalize the jurisdiction of U.S. courts to make it coextensive with that of the ICC.
It now appears all but certain that the ICC will come into being in the …
Prosecuting Rape As A War Crime: Speaking The Unspeakable, Tamara L. Tompkins
Prosecuting Rape As A War Crime: Speaking The Unspeakable, Tamara L. Tompkins
Notre Dame Law Review
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Judicial Abatement Of The Materiality Requirement In Denaturalization Proceedings: Eroding The Valued Rights Of Citizenship, Matthew E. Steinmetz
Judicial Abatement Of The Materiality Requirement In Denaturalization Proceedings: Eroding The Valued Rights Of Citizenship, Matthew E. Steinmetz
Notre Dame Law Review
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