ICL - Reading List - Part I

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW (FALL TERM) 2006
SYLLABUS

Professor: Chile Eboe-Osuji



PART I

Topics

(1) International law as a frame of reference in the notion of international criminal law
(2) Definition of international criminal law
(3) Sources of international criminal law
(4) Some Notable Concepts in International Criminal Law:

o In dubio pro reo
o Ne bis in idem
o Principle of Legality
nulla crimen sine lege
nulla poena sine lege
o Nulla poena sine culpa
o Jus de non evocando
o Jus Cogens
o Concepts of Jurisdiction
§ universal jurisdiction – jurisdiction erga omnes
§ concurrent jurisdiction
§ primary jurisdiction
§ exclusive jurisdiction
§ complementary jurisdiction



Recommended Reading

(1) Peter Malanczuk, Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International Law, 7th edn [London and New York: Routledge, 1997]

- chapter 1 - Introduction
- chapter 2 - History and Theory
- chapter 3 - Sources of International Law
- chapter 4 - International Law and Municipal Law
- chapter 6 - International Organisations, Individuals, Companies and Groups
- chapter 14 - Human Rights

(2) Kriangsak Kittichaisaree, International Criminal Law [Oxford: OUP, 2001]
- chapter 1 – Review of Relevant Concepts

(3) International Committee of the Red Cross, ‘What is International Humanitarian Law?’ [July 2004] (accessed 9 September 2006)


(4) Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals in The Trial of Major War Criminals: Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal Sitting at Nuremberg Germany, 30 September and 1 October 1946, Part 22, (1950) at 446 - 447 [see ].

(5) Prosecutor v Tadić (Decision on the Defence Motion for Interlocutory Appeal on Jurisdiction) 2 October 1995 [ICTY Appeals Chamber]

(6) Prosecutor v Kanyabashi (Decision on Defence Motion on Jurisdiction) 18 June 1997 [ICTR Trial Chamber II]

(7) Charter of the UN, preamble, art 1 and Chapter VII

(8) Prosecutor v Hadžihasanović & ors (Decision on Interlocutory Appeal Challenging Jurisdiction in Relation to Command Responsibility) 16 July 2003 [ICTY Appeals Chamber]

(9) Prosecutor v. Hadžihasanović and Ors (Decision on Interlocutory Appeal Challenging Jurisdiction in relation to Command Responsibility) (16 July 2003) (ICTY Appeals Chamber, Separate Opinion of Judge Shahabuddeen)

(10) Prosecutor v Milutinović, Sainović and Odjanić (Decision on Dragoljub Odjanić’s Motion Challenging Jurisdiction—Joint Criminal Enterprise) 21 May 2003 [ICTY Appeals Chamber]

(11) Prosecutor v Ndindiliyimana (Decision on Urgent Preliminary Motion to Stay the Indictment or in the Alternative to Cure Defects in the Indictment) 19 October 2000 [ICTR Trial Chamber III]

(12) Hamdan v Rumsfeld (2006), 415 F 3d 33 [Supreme Court of the United States] <>

(13) R v Bartle and the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis and ors ex parte Pinochet (No 3) [2000] 1 AC I47 [UK House of Lords]

(14) Case Concerning the Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium) 14 February 2002 [ICJ] <http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/idocket/iCOBE/iCOBEframe.htm>

(15 ) C Eboe-Osuji, ‘Genocide, Justice and the Forensic Sensibilities of the International Committee of the Red Cross’ Chinese Journal of International Law (2006) Vol 5, No 1, p 149;

(16) C Eboe-Osuji, ‘Murder as a Crime against Humanity at the Ad Hoc Tribunals: Reconciling Differing Languages’ [pending publication in the Canadian Yearbook of International Law]