Postgraduate Course: Selected Issues in International Criminal Law (LAWS11291)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Law |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course will focus on the study of selected aspects of international and transnational criminal law and international cooperation in the administration of justice. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
(1) Knowledge that will integrate the two aspects of the subject: jurisdictional and substantive.
(2) A critical understanding of the principles governing state jurisdiction over crimes in the international legal system, and particularly a critical understanding of the principles governing prescriptive and enforcement jurisdiction of states.
(3) A critical understanding of the legal problems that arise in the defining of the three principal crimes under international law: genocide, crimes against humanity and aggression. This includes a critical evaluation of the concept of specific intent regarding genocide.
(4) A critical evaluation of ancillary forms of criminal liability in international criminal law ¿ principally of command responsibility and the three forms of joint criminal enterprise.
(5) A critical evaluation of the working, to date, of the major international courts, and particularly of the concept of complementarity in the International Criminal Court.
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Assessment Information
| 100% essay (5000 words) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
(1) The development of standard and specialised research techniques in the evaluation of the principal issues. This includes employment of key primary materials: court judgments and travaux preparatoires of relevant legal instruments. It also includes the critical evaluation of positions advanced in the secondary literature.
(2) The development of original and creative solutions to ongoing and outstanding issues facing international criminal courts, including the integration of concepts derived from common-law and civil-law systems of criminal justice.
(3) Dealing with complex issues and arriving at informed judgements on issues that have not yet received definitive treatment by international criminal tribunals, such as the meaning and application of complementarity in situations where facts are complex and incompletely known.
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
One 2 hour seminar per week |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Stephen Neff
Tel: (0131 6)50 2067
Email: Stephen.Neff@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Douglas Thompson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: D.Thompson@ed.ac.uk |
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