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Organisation >> Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät >> Walther-Schücking-Institut für Internationales Recht >>
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International Criminal Law (020072)- Dozent/in
- Dr. jur. Kenneth Chan
- Angaben
- Vorlesung, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS-Studium, ECTS-Credits: 6
für ERASMUS-/Austauschstudierende geeignet, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Fr 8:15 - 9:45, Raum n.V.
vom 13.4.2025 bis zum 13.7.2025
1. Prüfungstermin (Klausur am Ende der Vorlesungszeit eines Semesters): 18.7.2025, 8:00 - 10:00 Uhr, Raum WR400 - R.03.19
Bemerkung zu Zeit und Ort: The course will be held exclusively online. Lectures start on Friday 25 March 2025.
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Unterrichtssprache Englisch: This course is taught in English.
The course will be held exclusively online.
- Inhalt
- This course is an introduction to international criminal law, a branch of public international law. It will give students an overview of the field and related branches of scholarship such as international humanitarian law. In the first half of this course, students will learn about the history and operation of the courts and tribunals that have been established to prosecute atrocity crimes over the last century, and explore the challenges involved in pursuing accountability thorugh these institutions. In the second half of this course, students will learn about the core international crimes and how individual criminal responsibility for their commission is established. They will develop the skills necessary to critically apply this legal framework to different situations and cases, as well as current investigations.
The course is dividied into four/five parts.
Part A offers an introduction to the field of international criminal law.
Part B explores the institutional dimensions of atrocity crimes prosecutions through the examination of the different types of international courts and tribunals that have been established, with a particular emphais on the tribunals established following the conclusion of the Cold War – the ad hoc criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia, the internationalized hybrid tribunals such as the Extraordinary African Chambers and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Permanent International Criminal Court.
Part C outlines the four core ‘atrocity crimes‘, namely Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes, and Aggression. The crimes will be considered primarily in context of their application under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Part D addresses two vital procedural matters necessary for the determination of individual criminal responsibility: modes of liability (for example, superior and command responsibility) and criminal defences.
Target Audience
The course is directed at law students with a basic background in public international law and its principles and frameworks. Those participating in the Schwerpunktbereich 6: Völker- und Europarecht are especially welcome. The course is also open to students enrolled in the master programme Internationale Politik und Internationales Recht. Finally, it is open to ERASMUS students, who will obtain six European Credits for regular participation and giving a presentation. This course may be taken by students participating in level 4 of the Law Faculty’s Fachspezifische Fremdsprachenausbildung (FFA). They will be given the opportunity either to obtain a certificate of regular attendance or a graded certificate, thus enabling them to fulfil the requirements for the FFA certificate.
Course Examination and Grading
This course will be graded on the basis of a final written exam. Further details will be provided during the course.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Cases and Materials
All reading materials for this course will be provided via OLAT, but students are welcome to engage in deeper research, particularly in preparation for the case study presentations that they will give.
The following textbooks provide a broad overview of the key legal issues pertaining to the laws of war:
Carsten Stahn, A Critical Introduction to International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press 2019).
Otto Triffterer and Kai Ambos (eds.), The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (3rd ed., Nomos, 2015).
Robert Cryer et. al (eds.), An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Robert Cryer, International Criminal Law Documents (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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