Syllabus
Requirements: Active participation, presentation and exam. Structure of the Course: Introduction to the Subject (International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law) The Origins and the Development of the International Humanitarian Law Road to the Nuremberg Trial Charter of the International Military Tribunal and the Nuremberg Trial Tokyo Trial in Comparison with the Nuremberg Trial Road to the Establishment of the UN Ad-Hoc Tribunals (ICTY and ICTR) International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), its Statute and Case Law International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), its Statute and Case Law Road to the Establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its Statute International Criminal Court (Actual Questions) Mixed Models of the International Criminal Justice (Sierra Leone, Cambodia, etc.) Comparison of the International Criminal Institutions, Evaluation and Future Perspectives
Annotation
The course focuses on the international criminal justice, one of the most important and actual questions of the international law, deals with its origins and recent development, esp. with regard to the case law of the institutions of the international criminal justice.