Program

INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMES BY THE STATES

PROFESSOR IN CHARGE OF THE SUBJECT

Dr. Antoni Pigrau Solé, Professor of Public International Law at the Rovira i Virgili University (URV).

OTHER PROFESSORS

Dra. Paramonova Svetlana Leonidovna, Professor of Comparative Criminal Law. Free University of Brussels).

Dignite Bwiza.

TEACHING PERIOD

17th of September 2018 to 17th of December 2018. 1 week of presentation, 10 weeks of consecutive teaching and 1 final week of evaluation/retrieval with a previous week off.

EVALUATION

5 evaluative tests with a load of 20% on the final grade. There is no final test. Delivery of suspended or non-delivered works: last week (10 of December).

PROGRAM

  1. The principle of Universal Justice.
  2. The Audere et iudicare duty.
  3. Other possible legal foundations (criteria of competence and admissibility: active and passive, territorial, material and temporary).
  4. Reception and internal adaptation of international crimes.
  5. Other positive duties (cooperation and collaboration).
  6. Mechanisms for judicial cooperation and extradition.
  7. State immunity (Congo against Belgium).
  8. Systems of community justice and international crimes (Gacaca...); and Systems of internal justice (Germany post Nuremberg, Eichmann Process in Israel...).
  9. State agreements and competence of the ICC. 
  10. The relations of the State with other international jurisdictional bodies.

CONTENTS