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- ‘International crimes’ are acts that give rise to universal jurisdiction. 5 More specifically, they are offences that International Law (IL) permits any state in the world to prosecute, regardless of whether that state has a connection with the crime, its perpetrator, or victim. 6 International crimes can therefore be described as ‘universal crimes’ or ‘acts of universal criminality’, as they are criminal and punishable no matter where in the world they are committed. 7 In other words, they are...
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understanding of what makes an international crime distinctive: namely, that it involves an act that international law deems universally criminal. The international law requirement is what distinguishes an international crime from a domestic crime: although some acts that qualify as domestic crimes
The view that international crimes are defined principally by reference to an international legal obligation to suppress provides an internally coherent framework, but with the counterintuitive result that many seemingly ordinary domestic offences are, in fact, international crimes.
Sep 10, 2016 · First, it asks us to identify which acts qualify as international crimes. Second, and more fundamentally, it asks us to identify what is distinctive about an international crime – what makes an international crime different from a transnational crime or an ordinary domestic crime.
- Kevin Jon Heller, Kevin Jon Heller
- 2016
Nov 24, 2019 · After analysing the contemporary views of various scholars and focusing particularly on Antonio Cassese and M. Cherif Bassiouni’s work, the present chapter proposes a novel definition of the term ‘international crime’.
- Victor Tsilonis
- 2019
Feb 18, 2021 · Abstract. This chapter defends a pluralist account of International Criminal Law (ICL). In contrast to other approaches to defining international crimes, I argue, as both a descriptive and a normative matter, that there is no hard and fast distinction between international of fences and so-called ‘ordinary’ offences.
- Alexander K.A. Greenawalt
- 2020
International crimes can be divided between the so-called ‘core’ crimes and the more controversial international crimes. With respect to the former category, it is generally accepted that this label is ascribed to genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression. [7]
In IL scholarship, international criminalization is conceived as a legal process that is marked by two critical moments: firstly, the legal establishment of an international crime; and secondly, the legal prosecution of an international crime.
