Overview
- First monograph that deals comprehensively with the crime of aggression for the purpose of domestic implementation
- Highlights practice and literature from a former aggressor State that became an advocate of international criminal law
- Explores the methodological approaches to ascertaining customary international law in an inhibitory context
Part of the book series: International Criminal Justice Series (ICJS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Domestic implementation
- Crime of aggression
- International Criminal Law
- Ius ad bellum
- Prohibition of the use of force
- Obligation to criminalize aggression
- State practice on the crime of aggression
- Universal jurisdiction and the crime of aggression
- Immunities and the crime of aggression
- International Criminal Court and the crime of aggression
About this book
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal questions that arise for the legislative branch when implementing the crime of aggression into domestic law. Despite being the “supreme international crime” that gave birth to international criminal law in Nuremberg, its ICC Statute definition has been incorporated into domestic law by fewer than 20 States. The crime of aggression was also omitted in the rich debate held among German scholars in the early 2000s regarding the legislative implementation of other ICC Statute crimes. The current inability of the International Criminal Court to respond to the Russian aggression towards Ukraine invites the continuation of these academic debates without neglecting the particularities of the crime of aggression.
The fundamental issues discussed in this volume include the obligation to criminalize aggression, the core wrong of the crime, the normative gaps under domestic law and the jurisdictional gaps under the ICC Statute. To facilitate the operationalization of domestic implementation, the book explores the technical options for incorporating the definition into domestic law, the geographical ambit of domestic jurisdiction—most notably universal jurisdiction—as well as legal challenges such as immunities.The book is aimed primarily at researchers and States with an interest in the domestic implementation of international criminal law but those already working in the field should also find much of interest contained within it.
Dr. Annegret Hartig is Program Director of the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression and worked as a researcher at the University of Hamburg where she obtained her doctoral degree in international criminal law.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Making Aggression a Crime Under Domestic Law
Book Subtitle: On the Legislative Implementation of Article 8bis of the ICC Statute
Authors: Annegret Hartig
Series Title: International Criminal Justice Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-591-1
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the author 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-590-4Published: 14 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-592-8Published: 15 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-591-1Published: 13 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2352-6718
Series E-ISSN: 2352-6726
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 511
Topics: International Criminal Law , Public International Law , Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict