‘Crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced.’1This familiar affirmation by the Nuremberg Tribunal mandated by the Allies to judge high-ranking Nazis for the crimes they had ordered and organized in the name of the Third Reich brings out from the outset the links that exist between criminal individuals and the States on whose behalf they act.According to the classical rules of the law on international responsibility of...
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