Overview

Establishing individual criminal responsibility for mass atrocities is the foundational principle of international criminal justice, but this process is highly complex, and is accompanied by political and legal dilemmas about its operation. The book examines the drafting, interpretation, and application of the rules for assessing individual criminal responsibility as those rules emerge from the intense contestations among judges, lawyers, and academics within the legal field. Focusing on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the book provides a rich analysis of the international debates around questions of criminal responsibility by interrogating formal legal documents and legal scholarship alongside more candid accounts (interviews, memoirs, minutes). These debates are of key importance for international criminal law and global justice because how criminal responsibility laws are construed in practice determines which conduct merits punishment and, ultimately, demarcates the boundaries of what are considered the 'gravest' acts that 'shock' humanity.

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Author:   Liana Georgieva Minkova (University of Cambridge)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.710kg
ISBN:  

9781009320177

ISBN 10:   1009320173
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   16 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: ICL between legalism and critique; 2. The international legal field: a practice-based perspective; 3. The international criminal justice field from within: demarcating the debates on criminal responsibility; 4. Before Rome: common law influence and the merging of morality and legality; 5. Drafting the Rome statute: the battleground of ideas about criminal responsibility; 6. Interpreting the Rome statute: a newfound emphasis on criminal law theory; 7. An overview of ICC cases: applying the principled approach to criminal responsibility in practice; 8. The road to acquittals: Bemba and Gbagbo and Blé Goudé ;9. The road to convictions: Ntaganda and Ongwen; 10. Concluding Remarks; Bibliography; Index.

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Liana Georgieva Minkova is a Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College, University of Cambridge and a fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge. Her work has appeared in International Criminal Law Review, Journal of Genocide Research, Leiden Journal of International Law and Politics & Gender.

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