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Title

• The law of command responsibility / Guénaël Mettraux.

Author

Mettraux, Guénaël

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Description

xxiii, 307 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

This is a comprehensive guide to the law of command responsibility. Originally invoked against Nazi leaders for failing to prevent or punish crimes of subordinates, and more recently in the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, command responsibility is of importance in cases arising from the Iraq War and the War on Terror.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• Criminal liability (International law)
• War (International law)
• War Crimes
• War crimes

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-296) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The evolution of the law of command responsibility and the principle of legality -- The resurgence of international criminal justice and the rebirth of command responsibility -- Command responsibility under customary international law and the statute of the International Criminal Court -- Command responsibility as a sui generis form of liability for omission -- Scope of application of the doctrine of command responsibility--international and internal conflicts as well as peacetime? -- Military commanders, civilian leaders, and other superiors, whether de jure or de facto -- General remarks -- Underlying offences -- A superior-subordinate relationship between the accused and those who committed the underlying offences -- A culpable state of mind -- Breach of duty and consequential failure to prevent or punish crimes of subordinates -- Concluding remarks: a workable standard of liability for superiors.

ISBN

• 9780199559329 (hbk.)
• 0199559325 (hbk.)

LCCN

^^2009923806

OCLC

234430764

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library