Browsing by Subject "International criminal law"
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Defences to international crimes
(Routledge, 2011)The label 'defences' can be used to describe a range of excusing or justificatory answers to a criminal charge, or as 'grounds for excluding criminal responsibility', according to Article 31 of the Rome Statute of the ... -
The Dehumanisation Dynamic: A Criminology of Genocide
(2011-10-03)Why do individuals perpetrate the crime of genocide? This thesis utilises an interdisciplinary, criminological approach in order to explore this question. Interviews with perpetrators and victims of genocide in Rwanda, ... -
The Exhumation of Mass Graves by International Criminal Tribunals: Nuremberg, the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
(2011-10-28)This thesis is a study on the practice of mass grave exhumation in the context of international criminal law, and more specifically as employed by international criminal tribunals. The primary institutions of focus are the ... -
On the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in International Law
(2013-08-30)The debate which envelopes the principle of universal jurisdiction draws out a "dark side" of the international criminal law project because the commitment by the international community to individual criminal accountability ... -
Ordinary business and international criminal responsibility: contributions to international crimes by means of neutral conduct
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-26)International crimes are inherently collective offences. They result from collusion and cooperation between political, military (or paramilitary), and often economic actors. Thus, it can be said that there are three ... -
The Prohibition of Environmental Damage during the Conduct of Hostilities in Non-International Armed Conflict
(2013-05-09)This thesis examines the adequacy of the laws of armed conflict to prohibit environmental damage in non-international armed conflict. The overall conclusions is that the laws of armed conflict are not adequate in this ... -
The Relationship between Refugee Exclusion Law and International Law: Convergence or Divergence?
(2011-05-30)While asylum as a concept has been known since ancient times, persons with a criminal background have always been treated with suspicion and depending on the time and place would either be granted asylum in a limited form ... -
The Right to a Fair Trial in International Criminal Law
(2013-08)This work seeks to examine the potential of international criminal tribunals to set the highest standards of procedural fairness for the conduct of criminal proceedings domestically. This work points to a number of reasons ... -
The role of the judge in the progressive development of international criminal law
(2017-01-19)International criminal law offers fertile ground for considering the role of the bench in the development of law through creative or progressive interpretative methodologies. Since its genesis at Nuremberg more than 70 ... -
Shocking the conscience of humanity: Gravity and the legitimacy of international criminal law
(2014-10-20)This thesis analyses the relationship between an idea and the legitimacy of an international regime. The idea, captured in the word "gravity", is that some crimes are so serious that they concern the entire world. That ...