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Compensating Victims Of Terrorism Or Frustrating Cultural Diplomacy - The Unintended Consequences Of The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’S Terrorism Provisions, Danica Curavic
Cornell International Law Journal
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Ending Impunity: How International Criminal Law Can Put Tyrants On Trial, Geoffrey Robertson
Ending Impunity: How International Criminal Law Can Put Tyrants On Trial, Geoffrey Robertson
Cornell International Law Journal
In this keynote address to the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author argues that the two trials demonstrate that the historical immunity problem of tyrants has been solved, & have ushered in a period when international justice will have its own momentum. Historical analysis of the denial of impunity to tyrants relates the evolution of sovereign immunity in the Treaty of Westphalia, & the trials of Charles I, Louis XVI, & Napoleon. Head of state immunity was further removed in the Nuremberg Tribunals, & international accountability for international crimes was established with the trial of Prime Minister …