International criminal jurisdiction : whose law must we obey? / Kenneth S. Gallant.

'International Criminal Jurisdiction' is a treatise for anyone conducting research into how domestic and international regimes create and enforce rules for personal and subject matter jurisdiction in transnational or international criminal cases.

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Main Author: Gallant, Kenneth S., 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • International Criminal Jurisdiction
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Summary Table of Contents
  • Detailed Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One The Question and Its Context
  • 1. The Question of Jurisdiction
  • 1.I Some Meanings of the Question
  • 1.I.A Legal Obligation and the Meaning of "Must"
  • 1.I.B Jurisdiction and Authority
  • 1.II A Concept of Law
  • 1.II.A A Few Words on Criminal Law
  • 1.II.B A Few Words on International Law
  • 1.II.C Law in a World of Multiple Legal Systems
  • 1.III Jurisdiction and Its Three Aspects
  • 1.III.A Legislative Jurisdiction (Jurisdiction to Prescribe)
  • 1.III.A.1 Jurisdiction to prescribe "true" international criminal law and treaty crimes
  • 1.III.B Adjudicative Jurisdiction
  • 1.III.C Jurisdiction to Enforce
  • 1.III.D The Primacy of Prescriptive Jurisdiction
  • 1.III.E Bringing in Adjudication: "Answerability" of Persons to States
  • 1.III.F Schools of Thought: "Criminalist" and "Internationalist"
  • 1.III.F.1 Values underlying public international law and criminal law
  • 1.III.F.2 "Criminalists," "internationalists," and private international lawyers
  • 1.III.F.3 International law and criminal law: A changing balance of influence
  • 1.III.G Conflicts of Jurisdiction
  • 1.III.H The Regulatory State and Authority to Make (Mostly) Non-​Criminal Law
  • 1.III.I Jurisdiction over Persons and Their Acts Does Not Exhaust State Power
  • 1.IV National Law of Criminal Jurisdiction from the Viewpoints of States and of Actors
  • 1.V The Question of Jurisdiction as Public International Law
  • 1.V.A The Dominant Perspective: Jurisdiction as Public International Law
  • 1.V.B Posing the International Law Issues of Jurisdiction, from the Point of View of Persons Affected
  • 1.VI Why the Question "Whose Law Must We Obey?" Persists.
  • 1.VII Comparative Law of Jurisdiction: Importance, Classification, Problems
  • 1.VII.A Classification of Legal Systems
  • 1.VII.A.1 Common law system
  • 1.VII.A.2 Civil law system
  • 1.VII.A.3 Islamic law states
  • 1.VII.A.4 "Other Asian legal systems"
  • 1.VII.A.5 The problem of legal imperialism
  • 1.VII.B Biases and Limitations of Language and Materials in this Book
  • 1.VII.B.1 Limitations of comparative research in this book
  • I.VII.B.2 Transliteration and other spelling problems
  • 1.VIII The Theses of this Book
  • 1.IX The Plan of this Book
  • 1.IX.A Why Is this Book so Long?
  • 2. The National and International Law of Criminal Jurisdiction: Structure and Sources
  • 2.I Introduction to the National Sources
  • 2.I.A Foreign Law Used in Domestic Criminal Cases
  • 2.I.B Non-​National Sources of Criminal Law? The Case of Islamic Law
  • 2.I.B.1 Statutes, sharī'a, and applicability of criminal law
  • 2.II How Does International Law Affect State Authority to Define the Ambit of Criminal Laws and Adjudicative Jurisdiction of Courts? The Lotus Framework
  • 2.III The Place of the Individual in the International Law of Jurisdiction
  • 2.III.A "Diplomatic Protection" by One's State of Nationality
  • 2.III.B The Individual in International Law
  • 2.III.B.1 The problem of legal obligation
  • 2.III.C Law and/​or Politics? Court Process for Persons versus Legal/​Political Interaction between States
  • 2.III.D Individual or State: Whose Claim? Whose Remedy?
  • 2.III.E Application of International Law in National Courts: Monism, Dualism, and Their Variants
  • 2.III.E.1 Interpreting domestic statutes to achieve compliance with international law
  • 2.III.F Direct Participation of Individuals in International Legal Processes: Human Rights Treaty Courts and International Criminal Courts
  • 2.III.G Extradition and Protections from Jurisdictional Claims.
  • 2.III.H Summary and a Statement of the Ideal
  • 2.IV Sources of International Law and Their Application to the Law of Jurisdiction
  • 2.IV.A International Conventions
  • 2.IV.A.1 Treaties and jurisdiction to prescribe for "core" international criminal law
  • 2.IV.A.2 Treaties and the "Whose law . . .?" questions
  • 2.IV.B Customary International Law
  • 2.IV.B.1 The two elements
  • 2.IV.B.2 A"general practice" (the first element)
  • 2.IV.B.3 "Accepted as law" (opinio juris-​the second element)
  • 2.IV.B.3.a Opinio juris, "instant custom," and "Grotian moments"
  • 2.IV.B.4 National legislation and decisions of national courts as practice and expressions of opinio juris
  • 2.IV.B.4.a Use as forms of state practice
  • 2.IV.B.4.b Expression of opinio juris by national legislation and court decisions
  • 2.IV.B.5 Traditional interstate practice as evidence of a customary law of jurisdiction
  • 2.IV.B.6 Treaties and formation of customary international law of jurisdiction
  • 2.IV.B.7 Acts of international organizations
  • 2.IV.B.7.a Decisions of international courts and tribunals
  • 2.IV.B.8 But what about the "auxiliary" or "subsidiary" status of judicial decisions in the ICJ Statute?
  • 2.IV.B.9 What about the teachings of publicists and their auxiliary or subsidiary status?
  • 2.IV.C General Principles of Law
  • 2.IV.C.1 So what do general principles of law do?
  • 2.IV.C.2 Using general principles to construct the law of jurisdiction
  • 2.IV.C.3 General principles as a source of the law of modern international crimes
  • 2.IV.C.4 An objection: Have we gone beyond true general principles?
  • 2.IV.C.5 General principles and legality
  • Part Two International and Comparative Criminal Jurisdiction: The Standard Model
  • 3. The Standard Model of Criminal Jurisdiction: Introduction and General Issues.
  • 3.I Introduction to the Model and Its Principles
  • 3.I.A The Five Principles
  • 3.I.B The Need for a "Significant Connection" between the Persons or Events Regulated and the Regulating State
  • 3.II Jurisdiction of Courts and Ambit of Criminal Laws
  • 3.III Roots of the Standard Model
  • 3.IV The Standard Model as a Modern Intellectual and Legal Construct
  • 3.V Relationship of Jurisdiction to Prescribe and to Adjudicate
  • 3.V.A The Starting Point: Identity of Jurisdiction to Prescribe and Adjudicate in Criminal Law
  • 3.V.B Subsidiarity: Where States Define Crimes but Sometimes Refuse Adjudicative Jurisdiction
  • 3.V.C Adjudication in Absentia
  • 3.V.D Foreign Law in Domestic Criminal Cases
  • 3.V.E Jurisdiction to Adjudicate and Sources of Substantive Law in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
  • 3.V.F Criminal Jurisdiction and Non-​Criminal Choice of Law
  • 3.VI "Primary" versus "Subsidiary" Adjudicative Jurisdiction
  • and the Need for "Double Criminality" and "Lex Mitior [Lesser Penalty]"
  • 3.VI.A Does International Law Require Subsidiarity?
  • 3.VI.B Ryngaert: Prescriptive Subsidiarity
  • 3.VII Problems of Jurisdiction to Enforce
  • 3.VIII Jurisdiction as Substantive or Procedural Law
  • 3.IX "Jurisdictional" and "Material" Facts
  • 3.X Special Jurisdictional Problems: Law of the Sea and Air, Law of Armed Forces, Artificial Persons, and Law of Immunity
  • 3.X.A Laws of the Sea and Air
  • 3.X.B Law of Armed Forces
  • 3.X.C Artificial or Juridical Persons
  • 3.X.D Diplomatic and Other Official Immunities of Individuals from Criminal Prescription and/​or Adjudication
  • 3.XI The Standard Model and the "Whose Law . . .?" Questions
  • 4. The Territorial Principle
  • 4.I Basics and Background
  • 4.I.A What Is "Territoriality"?
  • 4.I.B What Is the Territory of a State?
  • 4.I.B.1 Places "assimilated to state territory".
  • 4.I.B.2 Places in which states have limited authority to prescribe criminal law: Treaty and custom
  • 4.I.B.3 The place where a hijacked aircraft lands with the hijacker still on board: A special territory?
  • 4.I.C "Localization": How States Define which Crimes Are Committed in Their Territories and Who May Be Prosecuted for Them
  • 4.I.C.1 "Elements" of crimes and localization of crime
  • 4.I.C.2 Intent, other mental states, and territorial jurisdiction
  • 4.I.C.3 Legal fictions involved in localization of partly territorial or wholly extraterritorial crime
  • 4.I.C.3.a "Constructive presence"
  • 4.I.C.3.b "Deeming" partly or wholly extraterritorial crimes to have been committed within a state
  • 4.I.C.3.c "Continuing" or "renewed" offenses across borders
  • 4.I.C.3.d Fictional "territorial" zones
  • 4.I.D Three Basic Patterns of Territoriality Today: Subjective Territoriality, Objective Territoriality, and Ubiquity
  • 4.II Justifications of, and Objections to, Territorial Jurisdiction
  • 4.II.A Justifications of, and Objections to, Territorial Jurisdiction in General
  • 4.II.A.1 Justifications based primarily in international law theory
  • 4.II.A.2 Justifications and objections based primarily in criminal law theory
  • 4.II.B Justifications of, and Objections to, Subjective Territoriality
  • 4.II.B.1 Justifications and objections based primarily in international law
  • 4.II.B.2 Justifications and objections based primarily in criminal law
  • 4.II.B.2.a Acts by non-​nationals on the territory of a state: The philosophical debate
  • 4.II.B.2.b Counterargument to unlimited subjective territoriality where the criminal result happens elsewhere: It can criminalize "innocent" results
  • 4.II.C Justifications of, and Objections to, Objective Territoriality.