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Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice
- Source :
- American Journal of International Law. 113:727-771
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019.
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Abstract
- The scope of international criminal jurisdiction poses a fundamental challenge for criminal law theory. Prevailing justifications for the state's authority to punish crime assume the existence of connections between the state and either the criminal or the crime that are not always present in the international criminal context. Recognizing this gap, this Article introduces a new theory of what distinguishes international crimes from domestic crimes and justifies the unusual scope of international criminal jurisdiction. As this Article explains, international crimes are unique in the way they undermine international society's structure as a system of sovereign states.
- Subjects :
- 050502 law
Scope (project management)
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05 social sciences
Context (language use)
0506 political science
Sovereignty
State (polity)
Political science
Political Science and International Relations
050602 political science & public administration
Criminal law
Law
0505 law
Law and economics
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Criminal jurisdiction
Sovereign state
Criminal justice
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21617953 and 00029300
- Volume :
- 113
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of International Law
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........6d6fe0a4ffee77745bec1944ec035763