Interpreting crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court / Leena Grover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grover, Leena, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998 July 17).

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

International criminal law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 459 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Summary:

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court defines more than ninety crimes that fall within the Court's jurisdiction: genocide, other crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. How these crimes are interpreted contributes to findings of individual criminal liability, and moreover affects the perceived legitimacy of the Court. And yet, to date, there is no agreed-upon approach to interpreting these definitions. This book offers practitioners and scholars a guiding principle, arguments and aids necessary for the interpretation of international crimes. Leena Grover surveys the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda before presenting a model of interpretive reasoning that integrates the guidance within the Rome Statute into articles 31-33 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1969).

Contents:

Introduction

The state of the art

Guiding interpretive principle

Challenges to the principle of legality

Operationalizing the principle of legality

Custom as an aid to interpretation

Internal indicia of codification

External indicia of codification

The Vienna Convention (1969) and aids to interpretation

Conclusions.

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ISBN:

9781107705586

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