Fireside Chat with Prof. Alette Smeulers and Dr. Thijs Bouwknegt

TY - JOUR

T1 - Fireside Chat with Prof. Alette Smeulers and Dr. Thijs Bouwknegt

AU - Bouwknegt, Thijs B.

AU - Smeulers, Alette

PY - 2022/5/1

Y1 - 2022/5/1

N2 - International criminal jurisprudence, principally that of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), notes that “under customary law, ‘purely personal motives’ do not acquire any relevance for establishing whether or not a crime against humanity has been perpetrated.” Similarly, at the International Criminal Court (ICC), “the [Rome] Statute does not envisage any requirement of motive or purpose to prove that a policy to commit an attack against the civilian population exists.”Against this background, we ask …

AB - International criminal jurisprudence, principally that of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), notes that “under customary law, ‘purely personal motives’ do not acquire any relevance for establishing whether or not a crime against humanity has been perpetrated.” Similarly, at the International Criminal Court (ICC), “the [Rome] Statute does not envisage any requirement of motive or purpose to prove that a policy to commit an attack against the civilian population exists.”Against this background, we ask …

M3 - Article

JO - Harvard International Law Journal

JF - Harvard International Law Journal

ER -