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Part A Major Problems of International Criminal Justice, IV International Criminal Trials, International v. National Prosecution of International Crimes

Florian Jeßberger

From: The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice

Edited By: Antonio Cassese (Editor-in-Chief)

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Published in print:
22 January 2009
ISBN:
9780199238323

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 27 September 2023

International criminal justice is usually perceived as justice delivered by international courts. This common view has its merits: the activity of international tribunals—in Nuremberg, in The Hague, in Arusha—powerfully contributed to the firm establishment of rules on individual criminal responsibility for international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Furthermore, an international court appears to be the ‘natural’ forum to prosecute crimes that—like the crimes in question—disrupt the international legal order by threatening the...
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