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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4.10. Wprowadzenie do międzynarodowego prawa karnego 29.11.Jurysdykcja - trybunały historyczne |
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Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
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.
Practical placement
Not applied.
Bibliography
Bantekas I, Nash S, International criminal law.
Cassese A., International Criminal Law,
Gardocka T., Gardocki L., Majewski Ł., Prawo Karne Międzynarodowe. Zarys systemu. PWN 2017
Hofmański P., Kuczyńska H., Międzynarodowe Prawo Karne
Królikowski M., Wiliński P., Izydorczyk J., Podstawy prawa karnego międzynarodowego
O’Keefe R., International criminal law
.Schabas W. , An Introduction to International Criminal Court
Schabas W. , Routledge Handbook of International Criminal Law
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Term 2025Z:
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Term 2026Z:
See general description of the course |
Notes
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