Annegret Hartig, "Making Aggression a Crime Under Domestic Law: On the Legislative Implementation of Article 8bis of the ICC Statute "
English | ISBN: 9462655901 | 2023 | 528 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
English | ISBN: 9462655901 | 2023 | 528 pages | EPUB | 821 KB
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.
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