PLS 3253: International Criminal Law
Spring 2013

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  • Course Information
  • The Debate over Rights: The Development of International Criminal Law (PowerPoint slides)
  • Crimes, Defenses and Rights in International Criminal Law (PowerPoint slides)
  • International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) (PowerPoint slides)
  • International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (PowerPoint slides)
  • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (PowerPoint slides)
  • Special Court for Sierra Leone (PowerPoint slides)
  • International Criminal Court (PowerPoint slides)
  • Domestic Efforts to Address Human Rights Violations: Civil Litigation (PowerPoint slides)
  • Domestic Efforts to Address Human Rights Violations: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions (PowerPoint slides)
  • Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
  • Serious Crimes Unit for Timor Leste
  • Data Sets
  • Electronic Resources for International Criminal Law
  • Journals Devoted to International Law and International Criminal Law
  • Journals Devoted to Human Rights Issues

    • Course Information:

  • Syllabus
  • Here is the D2L link to the course
  • Sample exam
  • Here is a list of assigned cases for the class presentation
  • Trial Watch is a good starting place for your case summary
  • List of Tribunals (from the Financial Times)
  • Cases and countries (from The Economist)
  • BBCNews
  • StumbleUpon Page
  • Daily Show
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    • The Debate over Rights: The Development of International Criminal Law:

  • Jus ad bellum
  • Jus in bello
  • Pacta sunt servanda
  • Natural Law Theory
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    • Crimes, Defenses and Rights in International Criminal Law:

  • Amnesty International
  • Belgium and universal jurisdiction
  • Pinochet case
  • Roper and Barria data (figure and tables) concerning Bosnian judicial structure
  • State-based definitions of genocide
  • State-based laws governing genocide (list of states)
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Berkeley War Crimes Center
  • Chilean Human Rights Project
  • Coalition for International Justice
  • Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
  • European Court of Human Rights
  • Freedom House
  • Geneva Conventions
  • Definition of grave breaches
  • Discussion of Geneva Convention and war crimes
  • US War Crimes Act
  • Views on the US War Crimes Act
  • Use of MCAs and war crimes
  • Genocide Convention
  • Conspiracy to commit genocide (1, 2 and 3)
  • Conspiracy as an inchoate crime
  • State-based definitions of genocide
  • Human Rights Watch
  • International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  • International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
  • Jus ad bellum
  • Jus in bello
  • Jus cogens rights (case law)
  • Difference between erga omnes and jus cogens
  • Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
  • Personal Immunity
  • Pinochet case
  • Pinochet case again
  • Reports from the International Crisis Group
  • Transitional Justice Bibliographical Database
  • Transparency International
  • United Nations Charter
  • United Nations Declaration of Human Rights
  • United Nations Human Rights Council
  • University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  • University of California Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center
  • United States Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
  • US Declaration of Independence
  • US Institute of Peace Truth Commissions Collection
  • Yale University Avalon Project: Documents on Law, History and Diplomacy
  • Yale University Genocide Studies Program
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    International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg and Tokyo):

  • Video of Nuremberg trials
  • Video of IMTFE
  • Charter of the IMT
  • General information regarding the Nuremberg trials
  • Charter of the IMTFE
  • Summary of convictions
  • Crime of aggression
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    • International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia:

  • Dayton Peace Agreement
  • Map of the former Yugoslavia (by ethnic groups)
  • Resolution authorizing the creation of the ICTY
  • Home page of the ICTY
  • ICTY and ICTR Completion Strategy
  • BCC coverage of the Karadzic trial
  • Srebrencia
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    International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda:

  • Akayesu case
  • Bio of President Kagame
  • Home page of the ICTR
  • Ghosts of Rwanda
  • Map of Rwanda
  • Gacaca justice
  • Trials in Rwanda
  • UN Resolution 955
  • UNAMIR
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    • Special Court for Sierra Leone:

  • Home page of the SCSL
  • Statute of the SCSL
  • Home page of the government of Sierra Leone
  • Other links to Sierra Leone
  • Video of the conflict
  • Text of the Lome Accord
  • Videos of the SCSL
  • US Embassy in Freetown
  • Map of Sierra Leone
  • Diamond areas in Sierra Leone
  • Child soldier
  • Shameful but funny take on life as a child solider
  • TRC for Sierra Leone
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    • Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia:

  • Short video about Khmer Rouge
  • Information about the ECCC
  • Statute of the ECCC
  • Home page of the ECCC
  • US 1994 Cambodian Genocide Act
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    • International Criminal Court:

  • ICC
  • Article 98 agreements and Latin American states
  • Cases before the ICC
  • Rome Statute
  • Home page of the ratification of the ICC
  • UN Resolution referring Darfur cases
  • US view of the ICC in terms of Article 98 agreements
  • Why create the ICC?
  • Frontline on Darfur
  • Debate on indictment of Bashir
  • Bad but funny cartoon about war crimes tribunals
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    • Domestic Efforts to Address Human Rights Violations: Civil Litigation

  • PBS video on Alien Tort Claims Act
  • Alien Tort Statute cases resulting in plaintiff victories
  • Universal civil jurisdiction
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    Domestic Efforts to Address Human Rights Violations: Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

  • The US Institute of Peace maintains a great page devoted to TRCs
  • TRC videos for South Africa
  • Desmond Tutu on the SATRC
  • Working for the TRC
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    Serious Crimes Unit for Timor Leste:

  • Information on the Indonesian Process from the East Timor Judicial Monitoring Project
  • Home page of the Serious Crimes Unit
  • Information on the Indonesian Process from Human Rights and Constitutional Rights
  • Map of Timor
  • War in East Timor
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    • Data Sets:

  • CIRI human rights data set
  • Demography data sets
  • ISA data archive
  • Institutions and Elections Project data set
  • Poe, Carey and Vazquez article and figures
  • Political Terror Scale
  • Polity IV data set (codebook and data set in SPSS)
  • Roper and Barria war crimes tribunal funding data set and code book
  • Roper and Barria human rights institutions funding data set and code book
  • Roper and Barria Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Africa Data Set (TRACDS) data set and codebook
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    • Electronic Resources for International Criminal Law:

  • American Society of International Law Research Guide on International Criminal Law
  • HccH deals with private international law
  • The Frederick K. Cox International Law Center War Crimes Research Portal
  • NYU's Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: International Criminal Law
  • The War Crimes Project at New England School of Law
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    Journals Devoted to International Law and International Criminal Law:

  • HG list of several law journals
  • American Journal of International Law
  • European Journal of International Law
  • International Comparative Law Review
  • International Journal of Transitional Justice
  • International Review of the Red Cross
  • Journal of International Criminal Justice
  • Law and Contemporary Problems (great issue on transitional justice)
  • Law and Contemporary Problems (great issue on private international law)
  • Leiden Journal of International Law
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    • Journals Devoted to Human Rights Issues:

  • Buffalo Human Rights Law Review
  • Columbia Human Rights Law Review
  • Essex Human Rights Review
  • Human Rights Quarterly
  • Human Rights Review
  • Human Rights and Human Welfare
  • International Journal of Human Rights
  • Journal of Human Rights
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