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INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAWCRIMINAL LAW
COURSE STRUCTURECOURSE STRUCTURE
I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAWINTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
II. SPECIFIC APPLICATIONSII. SPECIFIC APPLICATIONS
III. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW III. INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW PROCEDUREPROCEDURE
IV. INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND IV. INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AND INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALSINTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS
WHAT IS WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW?CRIMINAL LAW?
TWO LEVELS OF TWO LEVELS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAWINTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALSTRIBUNALS
TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMES PROSECUTED NATIONALLYCRIMES PROSECUTED NATIONALLY
TRANSNATIONAL CRIMESTRANSNATIONAL CRIMES
EXAMPLES –EXAMPLES –
COMPUTER CRIMESCOMPUTER CRIMES
DRUG CRIMESDRUG CRIMES
TERRORISMTERRORISM
MONEY LAUNDERINGMONEY LAUNDERING
GENERAL GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAWCRIMINAL LAW
KEY TERMS IN KEY TERMS IN INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAWCRIMINAL LAW
COMITYCOMITY
COMPLEMENTARITYCOMPLEMENTARITY
ERGA OMNESERGA OMNES
JUS COGENSJUS COGENS
ERGA OMNESERGA OMNES
OBLIGATION TO ENFORCE JUS OBLIGATION TO ENFORCE JUS COGENS NORMSCOGENS NORMS
EXTRATERRITORIALITYEXTRATERRITORIALITY
NE BIS IN IDEMNE BIS IN IDEM
SOURCES OF SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAWCRIMINAL LAW
RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF THE RESTATEMENT (THIRD) OF THE FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW OF FOREIGN RELATIONS LAW OF
THE UNITED STATESTHE UNITED STATES
CUSTOMARY LAWCUSTOMARY LAW
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTINTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT
FROM GENERAL PRINCIPLES FROM GENERAL PRINCIPLES COMMON TO THE MAJOR LEGAL COMMON TO THE MAJOR LEGAL SYSTEMS OF THE WORLDSYSTEMS OF THE WORLD
THE STATUTE OF THE THE STATUTE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF INTERNATIONAL COURT OF
JUSTICEJUSTICEARTICLE 38
1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall apply:
(a) international conventions, whether general or particular, establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting states;
(b) international custom, as evidence of a general practice accepted as law;
(c) the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations;
(d) subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the determination of the rules of law.
The Paquete Habana
“where there is no treaty, and no controlling executive or legislative act or judicial decision, resort must be had to the customs and usages of civilized nations; and, as evidence of these, to the works of jurists and commentators, who by years of labor, research and experience, have made themselves peculiarly well acquainted with the subjects of which they treat. Such works are resorted to by judicial tribunals, not for the speculations of their authors concerning what the law ought to be, but for trustworthy evidence of what the law really is.”
THE CASE OF THE THE CASE OF THE S.S.S.S.
LOTUS LOTUS
(FRANCE v. TURKEY)(FRANCE v. TURKEY)
BOWMAN CASEBOWMAN CASE
SOME FACTORS TO CONSIDERSOME FACTORS TO CONSIDER
1922 DECISION1922 DECISION
CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUDCONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD
ACT OCCURS OUTSIDE THE UNITED ACT OCCURS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATESSTATES
IS CRIMINAL IS CRIMINAL JURISDICTION JURISDICTION DIFFERENT?DIFFERENT?
WHEN DO YOU HAVE WHEN DO YOU HAVE
EXTRATERRITORALITY?EXTRATERRITORALITY?
CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAW ARE NOT THE SAME ARE NOT THE SAME WITH RESPECT TO WITH RESPECT TO
JURISDICTIONJURISDICTION
KEY QUESTIONSKEY QUESTIONS
WHAT DID CONGRESS INTEND?WHAT DID CONGRESS INTEND?
DID CONGRESS INTEND DID CONGRESS INTEND EXTRATERRITORIALITY?EXTRATERRITORIALITY?