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Contents
- Preliminary Material
- Dedication
- Preface
- Contents
- Table of Cases
- International Courts and Tribunals
- European Court of Human Rights
- Human Rights Committee
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Special Tribunal for Lebanon
- US Nuremberg Military Tribunals
- National Courts
- International Courts and Tribunals
- Table of Legislation
- List of Abbreviations
- Main Text
- Ch.I Genocide
- A Introduction
- B Actus Reus (Objective Elements)
- (1) Protected groups
- (2) The specific forms of genocide
- (a) Killing members of a group
- (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
- (f) So-called ‘ethnic cleansing’: an additional form of genocide?
- (3) A context element in genocide?
- C General Mens Rea (Subjective Elements)
- D Specific Mens Rea (Specific Intent)
- (1) General considerations
- (2) Jurisprudence
- (3) Dissenting views in the literature
- (4) The structure- and knowledge-based approaches combined
- (5) Consequences of the combined structure- and knowledge-based approach for other forms of participation in genocide
- (6) The specific elements of the specific intent
- Ch.II Crimes against Humanity
- A Introduction
- B The Context Element
- C Underlying Acts
- (1) Murder (Article 7(1)(a) ICC Statute)
- (2) Extermination (Article 7(1)(b) ICC Statute)
- (3) Enslavement (Article 7(1)(c) ICC Statute)
- (4) Deportation or forcible transfer of population (Article 7(1)(d) ICC Statute)
- (5) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of liberty (Article 7(1)(e) ICC Statute)
- (6) Torture (Article 7(1)(f) ICC Statute)
- (7) Sexual crimes (Article 7(1)(g) ICC Statute)
- (8) Persecution (Article 7(1)(h) ICC Statute)
- (9) Enforced disappearance of persons (Article 7(1)(i) ICC Statute)
- (10) The crime of apartheid (Article 7(1)(j) ICC Statute)
- (11) Other inhumane acts (Article 7(1)(k) ICC Statute)
- Ch.III War Crimes
- A General Observations
- (1) Concept and protected legal interests
- (2) Structure of Article 8 ICC Statute
- (3) Existence of an armed conflict (context element)
- (4) International, non-international, and internationalized armed conflict
- (5) Relationship between armed conflict and individual crimes, in particular mental requirements
- (6) Perpetrators, protected persons, and protected objects
- (7) De facto combatants, membership approach, and direct participation in hostilities
- B Individual War Crimes
- A General Observations
- Ch.IV The Crime of Aggression
- Ch.V Treaty Crimes
- Ch.VI Concursus Delictorum and Sentencing
- A Concursus Delictorum
- B Sentencing
- Ch.I Genocide
- Further Material
