International criminal law / Douglas Guilfoyle.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Foundations
1.The sources of international criminal law
1.1.Introduction
1.2.The sources of public international law
1.3.The law of treaties
1.4.Customary international law
1.5.The relationship between treaty law and customary international law
1.6.Revisiting the idea of a hierarchy of sources, and conflict between international law norms
1.7.The relationship between international criminal law and other branches of international law
1.8.Summary and conclusions
2.Principles of State jurisdiction
2.1.Introduction
2.2.Forms of jurisdiction: basic distinctions
2.3.National prescriptive jurisdiction based on `links'
2.4.Universal jurisdiction to prescribe
2.5.Treaty-based systems of `quasi-universal' jurisdiction
2.6.Summary and conclusions
pt. II Prosecuting International Crimes
3.The prosecution of international crimes: The role of international and national courts and tribunals
Contents note continued: 3.1.Introduction
3.2.The road to Nuremberg: origins and precursors
3.3.The IMT and the trial of the Nazi leadership, and other post-World War II proceedings
3.4.National prosecutions for international crimes
3.5.The rebirth of international criminal tribunals: the ICTY, the ICTR, and the ICC
3.6.What purposes are served by international criminal law?
3.7.Summary and conclusions
4.Jurisdiction and structure of international criminal courts and tribunals
4.1.Introduction
4.2.Types of international tribunal and their features
4.3.The jurisdiction of the major international criminal tribunals
4.4.Features of the jurisdiction of the ICC
4.5.The organs of international tribunals: their powers and functions
4.6.Summary and conclusions
5.Investigations, prosecutions, evidence, and procedure
5.1.Introduction
5.2.A brief introduction to international criminal procedure and the principal actors
Contents note continued: 5.3.The pre-trial phase of proceedings: criminal investigation, decision to prosecute, and the document containing the charges
5.4.The trial phase: confession, disclosure and evidence, conduct of the trial
5.5.Summary and conclusions
6.Fair trial rights, appeals, and revision and enforcement of sentences
6.1.Introduction
6.2.Fair trial rights and the position of the defendant
6.3.The right to a public, fair, and expeditious hearing
6.4.Legality of arrest and detention
6.5.Appeals
6.6.Revision and enforcement of sentences
6.7.Summary and conclusions
pt. III The Core International Crimes
7.The elements of international crimes
7.1.Introduction
7.2.Contextual elements or thresholds
7.3.Material element
7.4.Mental element
7.5.Summary and conclusions
8.War crimes
8.1.Introduction
8.2.Basic principles of LOAC: distinction and proportionality
Contents note continued: 8.3.International armed conflicts and non-international armed conflicts
8.4.The nexus requirement and mental element of war crimes
8.5.The substantive law of war crimes: the prohibited acts
8.6.Select war crimes
8.7.Corresponding offences between IACs and NIACs in the ICC Statute
8.8.Summary and conclusions
9.Crimes against humanity
9.1.Introduction
9.2.The evolution of the definition of crimes against humanity
9.3.The contextual element: `as a part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population with knowledge of the attack'
9.4.The underlying prohibited acts and their definitions
9.5.Persecution
9.6.Why have a separate category of crimes against humanity?
9.7.Summary and conclusions
10.Genocide
10.1.Introduction
10.2.Protected groups
10.3.Prohibited acts
10.4.The `contextual element' of genocide
10.5.The mental element required for genocide
Contents note continued: 10.6.Summary and conclusions
11.Aggression
11.1.Introduction
11.2.Historical development
11.3.Perpetrators
11.4.Prohibited conduct
11.5.Defining aggression
11.6.Aggression or lawful use of force?
11.7.Controversial cases of the use of force
lawful or unlawful?
11.8.Mental element
11.9.Aggression before the ICC
11.10.Aggression before national courts
11.11.Summary and conclusions
pt. IV Defendants in international criminal trials
12.Modes of participation in crimes and concurrence of crimes
12.1.Introduction
12.2.The liability of principals and accessories
12.3.Liability by perpetration/​commission
12.4.General forms of secondary participation
12.5.Command or superior responsibility
12.6.Joint criminal enterprise (JCE)
12.7.Commission by co-perpetration or indirect co-perpetration
12.8.Other forms of participation in a group crime at the ICC
12.9.Concurrence of crimes
Contents note continued: 12.10.Summary and conclusions
13.Defences or grounds for excluding criminal responsibility
13.1.Introduction
13.2.Defences before international criminal tribunals
13.3.Mental incapacity
13.4.Intoxication
13.5.Self defence
13.6.Duress and necessity
13.7.Mistake of fact and law
13.8.Superior orders
13.9.Reprisals and `tu quoque'
13.10.Military necessity
13.11.Summary and conclusions
14.Jurisdictional immunities
14.1.Introduction
14.2.Introduction to the theory and history of State immunity
14.3.Immunities enjoyed by individual State officials in criminal cases
14.4.The ICC and the immunity of the officials of non-State parties
14.5.Summary and conclusions.