The law of command responsibility / Guénaël Mettraux.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

1st edition

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Command responsibility (International law)

War crimes.

War (International law)

Criminal liability (International law)

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. The evolution of the law of command responsibility and the principle of legality

The resurgence of international criminal justice and the rebirth of command responsibility

Command responsibility under customary international law and the statute of the International Criminal Court

Command responsibility as a sui generis form of liability for omission

Scope of application of the doctrine of command responsibility - international and internal conflicts as well as peacetime?

Military commanders, civilian leaders, and other superiors, whether de jure or de facto

General remarks

Underlying offences

A superior-subordinate relationship between the accused and those who committed the underlying offences

A culpable state of mind

Breach of duty and consequential failure to prevent or punish crimes of subordinates

Concluding remarks: a workable standard of liability for superiors.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.

9780199559329

xxiii, 307 p. ; 24 cm