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Title

Individual criminal liability for the international crime of aggression / Gerhard Kemp.

Author

Kemp, Gerhard

Publication

Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia ; Portland, OR : International Specialized Book Services [distributor for the U.S.A. and Canada], c2010.

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Description

xviii, 274 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) provides for the inclusion of the crime of aggression within the Court's jurisdiction, but the Statute needs to be amended to include a definition of aggression and conditions for the exercise of jurisdiction. The Assembly of States Parties of the ICC will have such an opportunity to review the Rome Statute at its conference in Kampala (Uganda) in 2010. The author argues in this book that the review process provides an opportunity for the establishment of a realistic criminalisation regime for the crime of aggression. However, this criminal justice response to aggression has implications for the collective security system (embodied by the United Nations). No criminal justice response to aggression can ignore the latter aspect. The book thus provides a historical and contextual account of the development of the notion of aggression.^
• It identifies the important debates affecting the attempts to define the crime of aggression; puts the legal debates in normative and international political context; and examines the conditions necessary for the prosecution of the crime of aggression -- both nationally and internationally. It is submitted that the almost universal non-criminalisation of aggression at national level (and the concomitant lack of prosecutions) must be understood in the light of multiple constitutional, doctrinal and political reasons. These aspects are analysed with reference to national case studies. With this book, the author hopes to contribute to the process to construct a realistic and effective regime for individual criminal liability for the crime of aggression. Persons interested in international (and domestic) criminal law, public international law, as well as diplomacy and international politics, will find this book useful --^
• especially at this point in time when there seems to be a real possibility to reaffirm and concretise the legacy of Nuremberg -- that is to end impunity for the 'supreme international crime'. The book contains commentary on the most recent work of the Assembly of States Parties' Inter-sessional Meeting on the Crime of Aggression." -- Publisher's information.

Series Statement

Series Supranational criminal law : capita selecta ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Series Supranational criminal law v. 7.

Subject

• International Criminal Court
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998 July 17)
• Aggression (International law)
• International crimes
• War (International law)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Aggression in the context of collective security -- From jus ad bellum to jus contra bellum : the prohibition of the use of force in normative and institutional perspective -- From jus contra bellum to the criminalisation of aggression -- The "legacy of Nuremberg" : establishing individual criminal liability for the crime of aggression -- National courts and the prosecution of aggression -- The inclusion of aggression in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court --Drafting and diplomacy : the Special Working Group on the Crime of Aggression -- A proposed framework for individual criminal liability for the international crime of aggression.

ISBN

• 9789400000131
• 9400000138

LCCN

^^2010455947

OCLC

• 502034742
• SCSB-10375481

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library