CYIL Vol. 6, 2015

RESPONSE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMES

Pavel Šturma (ed.) et al. Response of International Law to International Crimes [Odpověď mezinárodního práva na mezinárodní zločiny]

Prague: 2014, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law, 230 p., Studies in International Law; vol. 6 (19)

This collective monograph provides a response of a part of Czech academic research on legal questions recently raised regarding various kinds of breaches universally called “international crimes”. The edited book is a result of Specific Research Project SVV no. 260013/2014, performed by a team of academics and students from the Department of International Law at Charles University in Prague. This project freely continues a project from 2013 which was orientated towards compensation in international law (monograph reviewed in this Czech Yearbook , vol. 5 in 2014). The link between the two issues is a common institute of international responsibility, but has different aspects. Professor Šturma, as the editor of the monograph, states in the “Summary”: “This 2014 SVV project was concerned with criminality crossing borders and particularly criminality connected with acts of state. There have been a lot of legal questions raised in the past regarding these issues and the discussions are far from finished. The debates spin around various kinds of breaches called “crimes”, including international crimes (serious breaches of international law connected with the responsibility of states), crimes under international law (acts giving rise to individual international criminal responsibility), as well as transnational criminality. Apart from these types of responsibility, there is also the responsibility of states arising from “regular” breaches of international law (not so- called international crimes or serious breaches of international law). All of these types of criminality were covered by several contributions.” The publication is mainly structured in six parts: – International crimes and crimes under International law: Theoretical views – Institutional and procedural aspects – The crime of agression and the crime of piracy – The Geneva Conventions and the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights – Forms of international and transnational criminality: examples of traffic and violence against women – The Refugee Convention and terrorism

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