Criminal responsibility in international relations 2104-M-D3ODKA-BSS
1. Introduction
- concept of ICL
- responsibility of individual and of a state and of legal entities
- principles of responsibility
- ICL and HRL, IHL
-sources
2. History of ICL
- interwar period
- post-WWII tribunals
- national courts attempts to try international crimes
- attempts to create intern. criminal courts.
3. Contemporary international criminal courts
-ad hoc tribunals - ICTY, ICTR
- internationalised tribunals
- ICC
4.international crimes
- Elements of international crimes (mens rea, actus reus)
- typology of international crimes
- crime of aggression
- genocide
- crimes against humanity
- war crimes
- slavery
- torture and other
- hierarchy of international crimes.
5. Forms of participation in international crimes
- including superior responsibility, JCE
6. Grounds excluding responsibility.
7. Proceedings before international crimes.
8. Alternative forms of responsibility (truth commission, amnesties, lustrations etc.)
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Term 2023Z:
5.10.2022 Wprowadzenie do międzynarodowego prawa karnego |
Term 2024Z:
4.10. Wprowadzenie do międzynarodowego prawa karnego 29.11.Jurysdykcja - trybunały historyczne |
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Student knows basic terms of international criminal law, knows legal regulations of ICL, make distinction between different institutions; analyses, interprets sources of ICL, solves short cases. He is able to assess whether international crimes were committed and if it is possible to hold perpetrators accountable.
S1_W03, S1_W06, S1_W09, S1_U01, S1_U02, S1_U03, S1_U04, S1_U05, S1_K04, S1_K05
Assessment criteria
Classes will be conducted on zoom, Docs to be read will be provided on Kampus.
Presence will be checked via quizzes. Best results and participation in discussion will be taken into account to assess activeness.
Final grade is based on: 20% activeness; 80% results of two tests.
Practical placement
Not applied.
Bibliography
Cassese A., International Criminal Law, OUP 2003, 2008, 2013.
Gardocka T., Gardocki L., Majewski Ł., Prawo Karne Międzynarodowe. Zarys systemu. PWN 2017
Gardocki L., Zarys prawa karnego międzynarodowego. PWN 1985.
Królikowski M., Wiliński P., Izydorczyk J., Podstawy prawa karnego międzynarodowego, WoltersKluwer 2008
O’Keefe R., International criminal law, CUP 2015
And also:
• I. Bantekas, S. Nash, International criminal law.
• M. Ch. Bassiouni, International criminal law.
• K. Kittichaisaree, International criminal law.
• W. Schabas, An Introduction to International Criminal Court
• W. Schabas, Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law
and additional literature provided to each lecture in Kampus.
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Term 2023Z:
See general description of the course |
Term 2024Z:
See general description of the course |
Notes
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Term 2023Z:
None. |
Term 2024Z:
None. |
Additional information
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