Individual criminal liability for the international crime of aggression

The chequered history of the criminalisation of aggression as a crime under international law has reached an important milestone with the adoption of the Kampala Resolution on the Crime of Aggression (2010). This resolution provides for the definition of the crime of aggression to be included in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kemp, Gerhard
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Intersentia 2016
Edition:Second edition
Series:Series Supranational criminal law : capita selecta
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of 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
  • 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
  • The crime of aggression under the Rome Statute of the ICC
  • National and regional prosecution of the crime of aggression