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Part B Issues, Institutions, and Personalities, C

Antonio Cassese

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: 31 March 2023

Crimes within the jurisdiction of the international criminal tribunals and the ICC are multilayered concepts. In the lower layers subsist criminal acts of varying degrees of internal complexity, whereas in the upper layers we find a kind of social context for those acts. Generally speaking, the elements in the upper layers are consolidated, in tribunal statutes, into ‘chapeaux’—one for each international crime. In the current four-fold taxonomy of international crimes—namely, genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes in international armed conflicts, and war...
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