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„Ich freue mich besonders über dieses Buch und die darin vorgenommene kritische Bilanz über eine repräsentative Auswahl geführter NS-Prozesse aus der juristischen Sicht eines ehemaligen Richters in der Justiz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China.
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Written by the Director of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at China's Shanghai Jiao Tong University, this book provides a unique analysis of war crime trials in Asia-Pacific after World War II.
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As part of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the UN SC Resolution 1888, the UN Team of Experts on the Rule of Law and Sexual Violence in Conflict joined forces with the Journal of International Criminal Justice to present a special issue on Justice and Accountability for Sexual Vio
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For the past few years, I have told LL.M students at Leiden University that if they read only one book during their studies it should be Philippe Sands’ East West Street: on the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity (2016).
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Unified Court Records Database
17-09-2020
On September 1, 2020, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) launched a new Unified Court Records database (UCR), which for the first time brings together all public judicial records of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the International Cri
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Africa and Withdrawal from the ICC
28-10-2016
Currently, 124 countries have ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
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1. How and why did you become an international lawyer?
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Achievements of the ICTY
03-06-2013
Twenty years ago, on 25 May 1993, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 827. With this resolution the international community en
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The ICC’s 10th Anniversary
06-07-2012
Ten years ago, on 1 July 2002 the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered into force.
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Osama Bin Laden (OBL) is dead. After he had been assassinated by a special ops team from the United States of America (USA.), the special team of SEALS took the deceased body of the dangerous mastermind terrorist and several hard drives from the compound in Abbottabad.
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Victor Bout, Arms Dealer, Extradited to USA
17-11-2010
Victor Bout, an interpreter and a former Russian military airforce officer suspected of arms trafficking, has been extradited to the United States of America by Thailand.
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On Sunday 7 and Monday 8 December, The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Center for International Law and the
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Accession to the International Criminal Court, Rome Statute and other International Instruments
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History has generally designated the International Military Tribunal (IMT) Trial as the Nuremberg Trial, and representations are often accompanied with the now-familiar image: Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice, with the chief Nazi defendants, most prominently Hermann Görin
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Ratko Mladić's Arrest and the ICTY
30-05-2011
It was all over the news that Ratko Mladić, one of two remaining the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) fugitives, was arrested on Thursday 26th of May in the village of Lazarevo, northern Serbia.
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On 17 July 2018 International Crimes Tribunal-1 of the International Criminal Tribunal of Bangladesh (ICTB) sentenced four persons to death for crimes against humanity and genocide which were committed during the 9-month war of independence of Bangladesh in 1971.
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Al Mahdi case
After the Al Mahdi case, a landmark trial, a second case has been referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Timbuktu, Mali between 2012 and 2013.
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The mercy plea of Oskar Gröning, a 96-year-old former Nazi officer, has been denied.
Research guide
International criminal law deals with the criminal responsibility of individuals for international crimes. There is no generally accepted definition of international crimes.