International Criminal Justice

Lectures

1. The notion of international crimes.
2. Methods of establishing international criminal tribunals.
3. Jurisdiction of a chosen international(-ized) criminal tribunal/court (subject matter, personal, temporal, territorial).
4. Advantages and disadvantages of the hybrid (internationalized) criminal tribunals.
5. Principles of criminal responsibility under the Rome Statute.
6. Problems in ensuring the national co-operation with international tribunals.
7. Relationship between international and domestic criminal jurisdiction.
8. Objections raised by states against the jurisdiction of the permanent ICC.
9. Non-judicial mechanisms of accountability.
10. Principles and procedures of international prosecutions.

Classes:

1. Continental and common law influences on international criminal procedure
2. Jurisdiction and admissibility.
3. Investigation.
4. Evidence.
5. Trial.
6. Appeals and reparations.
7. Role of the victim in the international criminal procedure.