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Curs Acadèmic: 2022/23

8071 - Màster Universitari Avançat en Ciències Jurídiques

32194 - Dret penal europeu i internacional


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Curs acadèmic:
2022/23
Centre acadèmic:
807 - Centre Màsters del Departament de Dret
Estudi:
8071 - Màster Universitari Avançat en Ciències Jurídiques
Assignatura:
32194 - Dret penal europeu i internacional
Crèdits:
4.0
Curs:
1
Idiomes de docència:
Teoria: Grup 1: Anglès
Grup 2: Anglès
Professorat:
Nuria Pastor Muñoz
Periode d'Impartició:
Segon trimestre
Horari:

Continguts

 

 


Academic Year/course: 2022/23

8071 - Advanced Master in Legal Sciences

32194 - European and International Criminal Law


Teaching Guide Information

Academic Course:
2022/23
Academic Center:
807 - Masters Centre of the Department of Law
Study:
8071 - Advanced Master in Legal Sciences
Subject:
32194 - European and International Criminal Law
Credits:
4.0
Course:
1
Teaching languages:
Theory: Group 1: English
Group 2: English
Teachers:
Nuria Pastor Muñoz
Teaching Period:
Second Quarter
Schedule:

Presentation

International and European criminal law is a new area of Law which does not simply consist in a compound of criminal law and international law or European law. The upgrading of criminal law to an international level is linked to important conceptual changes, since the role of international criminal law has specific aims which affect the whole system. Therefore, it is important to analyse the historical roots of International criminal law. This historical background helps to understand the present structure and configuration of international criminal law. The lectures focus on the analysis of the specific conception of norms and sanctions in international criminal law as well as on the methodological difficulties to build a system of criminal liability taking into account that there are two different criminal law traditions (common law and civil law) which flow into a common system. Of importance will be as well the analysis of the relationship between international jurisdiction and criminal law domestic jurisdictions - with special consideration of the implications for the principle of sovereignty and the foundation of criminaljurisdiction. Closer attention deserves the actual status of international criminal law in the frame of the ICC-Statute and the ICC-jurisprudence. Finally, some lectures will be dedicated to the peculiarities of the European criminal law as a form of supranational criminal law. 

 

 

Prerequisites

It is essential to have a background in criminal law and it is highly recommended to have background in international law. Students with a lack of knowledge in the latter field will have to do some readings prior to the beginning of the course (see bibliography list).

Contents

EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

 

§ 1. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (I)

1. The novelty of International Criminal Law

2. Factual reasons for the emergence of International Criminal Law.

 

§ 2. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (II)

1. International Criminal Law in a broader sense

2. International Criminal Law sensu stricto

3. Supranational Law (the case of European Law)

4. Rules concerning jurisdiction in criminal matters

5. Mutual Legal Assistance

6. Legitimacy of International Criminal Law: International Criminal Law, sovereignty and democracy.

7. International Criminal Law from the perspective of Philosophy of Law: auctoritas vs. veritas

8. Methodological context

 

§ 3: FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

1. Definition

2. International Criminal Law aims. The traditional paradigms of punishment’s justification (retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, restoration) at test

3. Contents of ICL: international norms and the scope of their validity

4. Concept and function of the norm in International Criminal Law

5. Protected interests by international criminal provisions

6. International Criminal Law from the perspective of the principles of Criminal Law: nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege.

7. Enforcement of International Criminal Law: reminder

8. Peculiarities of International Criminal Law compared with National Criminal Law, as well as with International Law

 

§ 4. HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (I)

1. International Criminal Law until 1919

2. The Versailles Treaty and the Leipzig War Crime Trials

3. The International Military Tribunal in Nurnberg (IMTN) 1945

4. The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)

5. Cold War

 

§ 5. HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (II)

1. International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

2. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)

3. Hybrid Internationalized Courts

4. International jurisdiction and sovereignty

 

§ 6. THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

1. The establishment of the International Criminal Court

2. Structure of the Statute

3. Function of the Court (art. 1 ICC-St)

4. Jurisdiction

5. Trigger mechanisms for the exercise of jurisdiction (art. 13 ff. ICC-St).

6. Principle of complementarity (art. 17 ICC-St).

7. Institutional Aspects

8. Procedure

9. Sanctions and Enforcement

10. Non application of statute of limitation. Ne bis in idem

 

§ 7. THE GENERAL PART OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (I)

1. A General Part of International Criminal Law?

2. Applicable Law

3. Rules of interpretation. Nullum crimen nulla poena sine lege

4. Structure of the international crime

5. General material elements of the international crime

6. General mental elements of the international crime: article 30 ICC-St.

 

§ 8. GENERAL PART OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (II)

1. Grounds excluding criminal responsibility

2. Perpetration and accessoryship

3. Attempt and abandonment of the attempt.

4. Omission. Responsibility of superiors.

 

§ 9. SPECIAL PART OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (I)

1. Genocide

2. Crimes against humanity

 

§ 10. SPECIAL PART OF ICL (II)

1. War crimes

2. Crime of aggression

3. Offences against the administration of Justice by the ICC

 

§ 11. EUROPEAN CRIMINAL LAW

1. Essential questions of European Criminal Law

2. The European Arrest Warrant

Teaching Methods

To facilitate the preparation of the lectures by the students, readings for the different topics in the programme are listed in the bibliography. In addition, the lecturer will provide students with presentations to follow up on each lecture.

For some lectures, students must have read articles or sentences that will then be the subject of discussion. The quality of the students' interventions in the discussion will be taken into account for the final grade.Mandatory readings will be announced via global classroom one week in advance.

 

 

 

Evaluation

The grade is based on the final exam mark and participation in the lectures. Both are relevant, so that the lack of preparation for the lectures cannot be compensated by a good final exam.

The final exam may be written or oral. Those who wish to take the oral exam must notify the lecturer by week 8 of the quarter. 

Bibliography and information resources

I. General bibliography - ICL

Kai Ambos, Treatise on International Criminal Law, Oxford University Press, Foundations and General Part (2nd edition, 2021), The Crimes and Sentencing (2014), Procedure, Cooperation, and Implementation (2016).

Antonio Cassese, International Criminal Law, 3rd ed., Oxford, 2013.

Robert Cryer, Hakan Friman, Darry Robinson, Elizabeth Wilmshurst, An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, 2014 (online: 2018).

Julia Geneuss, Fostering a Better Understanding of Universal Jurisdiction, Universal Jurisdiction Reloaded, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 7, Issue 5 (November 2009), pp. 945-962.

Alicia Gil Gil, Derecho penal internacional, 2019.

Florian Jessberger, Julia Geneuss, The Many Faces of the International Criminal Court, Journal of International, Criminal Justice, Vol. 10, Issue 5 (December 2012), pp. 1081-1094.

Claus Kress, International Criminal Law, in Wolfrum (ed), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008.

Helmut Satzger, International and European Criminal Law, Oxford, 2018.

William A. Shabas, International Criminal Law, 2016.

Harmen van der Wilt, Equal Standards - On the Dialectics between National Jurisdictions and the International Criminal Court, International Criminal Law Review, Vol. 8, Issues 1 and 2 (2008), pp. 229-272.

Gerhard Werle, Florian Jessberger, Principles of International Criminal Law, 4th ed., 2020.

 

II. Specific bibliography - ICL

§§ 1, 2, 3 (Introduction to ICL, foundations of ICL):

Kai Ambos, Punishment without a Sovereign: The Ius Puniendi Issue of International Criminal Law: A First Contribution towards a Consistent Theory of International Criminal Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 33, Issue 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 293-316.

Noora Arajarvi, Between Lex Lata and Lex Ferenda - Customary International (Criminal) law and the Principle of Legality, 15 Tilburg L. Rev. 163 (2010).

Pastor Muñoz,  «Why International Criminal Law Can And Should Be Conceived With Supra-Positive Law: The Non-Positivistic Nature of International Criminal Legality», Criminal Law and Philosophy, 18.2.2022

Robert Cryer, International Criminal Law vs State Sovereignty: Another Round?, The European Journal of International Law Vol. 16 no.5, 2006, 979-1000.

Shahram Dana, Beyond Retroactivity to Realizing Justice: A Theory on the Principle of Legality in International Criminal Law Sentencing, 99 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 857 (2009).

MP Ferreira-Snyman, The evolution of State sovereignty. A historical overview, Fundamina 2006 (12-2).

Robert A. Friedlander, The Foundations of International Criminal Law: A Present-Day Inquiry, 15 Case W. Res. J. Int'l L. 13 (1983). Available at: http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/jil/vol15/iss1/4

Kenneth S. Gallant, The principle of legality in International and Comparative Criminal Law, Cambridge, 2008.

Claus Kress, Nulla poena nullum crimen sine lege, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law www.mpepil.com

Kurt Mills, Reconstructing sovereignty: A human rights perspective”, 1997 Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, p. 277.

Alfred P. Rubin, Is International Criminal Law “Universal”?, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2001, p. 351 ff.

Cristina Tomulet, The Cornerstone of Legality: Case Study International Criminal Law, International Criminal Law, 2013 CDP 117.

 

To §§ 4, 5 (History of ICL):

David Frasser, (De)Constructing the Nazi State: Criminal Organizations and the Constitutional Theory of the International Military Tribunal, Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review, Vol. 39, pp. 117-186.

Jonathan Kolieb, Through the Looking-Glass: Nuremberg's Confusing Legacy on Corporate Accountability under International Law, 32 American University International Law Review 569 (2017).

Joshua M. Koran, An Analysis of the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia, ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (Fall 1998), pp. 43-70.

Claus Kress, Versailles - Nuremberg - The Hague Germany and International Criminal Law, 40 International Lawyer 15 (2006), p. 15-40.

Claus Kress, The Iraqi Special Tribunal and the Crime of Aggression, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (June 2004), pp. 347-352.

Triestino Mariniello, The Nuremberg Clause and beyond: Legality Principle and Sources of International Criminal Law in the European Court's Jurisprudence, 82 Nordic J. Int'l L. 221 (2013).

Peter E. Quint, The Border Guard Trials and the East German Past – Seven Arguments, The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2000, p. 542 ff.

Christian Tomuschat, The Legacy of Nurnberg, Journal of International Criminal Justice 4 (2006), 830-844.

Geoffrey R. Watson, The Humanitarian Law of the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal: Jurisdiction in Prosecutor v. Tadic, Virginia Journal of International Law, Vol. 36, Issue 3 (Spring 1996), pp. 687-720.

 

To § 6 (ICC):

Kai Ambos, International Law at the Crossroads: From Ad Hoc Imposition to a Treaty Based Universal System, Caiete de Drept Penal, Vol. 2010, Issue 3 (2010), pp. 16-37.

Theresa Giamanco, The Perpetrator behind the Perpetrator: A Critical Analysis of the Theory of Prosecution against Omar Al-Bashir, Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, Vol. 25, Issue 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 217-246

Claus Kress, Self-Referrals and Waivers of Complementarity - Some Considerations in Law and Policy, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 2, Issue 4 (December 2004), pp. 944-948.

Claus Kress, The Procedural Law of the International Criminal Court in Outline: Anatomy of a Unique Compromise, Symposium: On Some of the Legal Problems the ICC is Currently Facing, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 1, Issue 3 (December 2003), pp. 603-617.

Alex Mills, Rethinking Jurisdiction in International Law, British Yearbook of International Law, Volume 84, Issue 1, 1 January 2014, Pages 187–239,https://doi.org/10.1093/bybil/bru003

William A. Shabas, An Introduction to the International Criminal Court, 6th ed., Cambridge, 2020.

 

§§ 7, 8 (General Part of ICL):

Kai Ambos, Joint Criminal Enterprise and Command Responsibility, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (March 2007), pp. 159-183.

Kai Ambos, Critical Issues in the Bemba Confirmation Decision, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 22, Issue 4 (December 2009), pp. 715-726.

Florian Jessberger, Julia Geneuss, On the Application of a Theory of Indirect Perpetration in Al Bashir, Editorial Comments: Recent Steps of the ICC Prosecutor In the Darfur Situation: Prosecutor v. President, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 6, Issue 5 (November 2008), pp. 853-870.

Iryna Marchuck, The Fundamental Concept of Crime in International Criminal Law, Berlin, 2014.

Wiston P. Nagan, Joshua L. Root, The Emerging Restrictions on Sovereign Immunity: Peremptory Norms of International Law, the U.N. Charter, and the Application of Modern Communications Theory, 38 N.C. J. Intl L. & Com. Reg. 375 (2013), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/589.

Gerhard Werle, Florian Jessberger, Unless Otherwise Provided: Article 30 of the ICC Statute and the Mental Element of Crimes under International Criminal Law, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (March 2005), pp. 35-55.

 

§§ 9, 10 (Special Part of ICL):

Kai Ambos, What does intent to destroy in genocide mean?, International Review of the Red Cross, Vol. 91, Issue 876 (December 2009), pp. 833-858.

Kai Ambos, The First Judgment of the International Criminal Court (Prosecutor v. Lubanga): A Comprehensive Analysis of the Legal Issues, International Criminal Law Review, Vol. 12, Issue 2 (2012), pp. 115-154.

M. Cherif Bassiouni, Crimes against Humanity, Historical evolution and contemporary application, Cambridge, 2011.

Manuel R. Garcia-Mora, Crimes against Peace in International Law: From Nurnberg to the Present, 53 KY. L.J. 35 (1964).

Oona A. Hathaway, Paul K. Strauch, Betrice A. Walton, Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, What Is a War Crime, Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 44, Issue 1 (Winter 2019), pp. 53-114.

Claus Kress, On the Activation of ICC Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 16, Issue 1 (March 2018), pp. 1-18.

Claus Kress, The International Court of Justice and the Elements of the Crime of Genocide, Symposium: Genocide, Human Rights and the ICJ, European Journal of International Law , Vol. 18, Issue 4 (2007), pp. 619-630.

Salvatore Zappalà, Special Issue: Aggression: After Kampala, Special Issue: Aggression: After Kampala: Editorial, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (March 2012), pp. 1-2.

 

III. Bibliography ECL (§ 11,12)

Kai Ambos, The European Court of Human Rights and Extraordinary Renditions, European Criminal Law Review, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2015), pp. 107-121.

Joachim Renzikowski,  Coming to terms with on’s past: the Court’s recent case law on Article 7 ECHR, European Yearbook on Human Rights, 2010, 257 - 265.

 

IV. Basic bibliography in International Law

(for the students who need to strengthen their basic knowledge of International Law):

Anthony Aust, Handbook of International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Gideon Boas, Public International Law. Contemporary Principles and Perspectives, Cheltenham (UK) / Northampton, MA (USA): Edward Elgar, 2012.

I. Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 8th. ed., 2012.

James Crawford & Martti Koskenniemi (eds.), The Cambridge Companion To International Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Paola Gaeta, Jorge E. Viñuales, Salvatore Zappalà, Cassese’s International Law,  Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2020.

Malcom N. Shaw, International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 7th ed., 2014.

 


Curs Acadèmic: 2022/23

8071 - Màster Universitari Avançat en Ciències Jurídiques

32194 - Dret penal europeu i internacional


Información de la Guía Docente

Curs acadèmic:
2022/23
Centre acadèmic:
807 - Centre Màsters del Departament de Dret
Estudi:
8071 - Màster Universitari Avançat en Ciències Jurídiques
Assignatura:
32194 - Dret penal europeu i internacional
Crèdits:
4.0
Curs:
1
Idiomes de docència:
Teoria: Grup 1: Anglès
Grup 2: Anglès
Professorat:
Nuria Pastor Muñoz
Periode d'Impartició:
Segon trimestre
Horari:

Continguts