International Criminal Law: Using or Abusing Legality?

223 Pages·2014·1.5 MB·English

by  Edwin Bikundo

InternatIonal CrImInal law
INTERNATIONAL AND
COMPARATIVE CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Series editors:
mark Findlay, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney, Australia
ralph Henham, Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK
This series explores the new and rapidly developing field of international and
comparative criminal justice and engages with its most important emerging themes
and debates. It focuses on three interrelated aspects of scholarship which go to the
root of understanding the nature and significance of international criminal justice
in the broader context of globalization and global governance. These include:
the theoretical and methodological problems posed by the development of
international and comparative criminal justice; comparative contextual analysis;
the reciprocal relationship between comparative and international criminal justice
and contributions which endeavor to build understandings of global justice on
foundations of comparative contextual analysis.
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International Criminal law
Using or abusing legality?
edwIn BIKUndo
Griffith University, Australia
© edwin Bikundo 2014
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International criminal law : using or abusing legality? / by edwin Bikundo.
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Based on the author’s thesis (doctoral--University of Sydney, 2010).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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To Janice and Hector.
Thank you
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Contents
Table of Cases ix
Table of Legal Instruments xiii
Preface xv
1 The Responsibility to Protect Civilians from Political Violence:
Locating Necessity between the Rule and its Exception 1
2 International Criminal Law: From Hostis to
Hostia Humani Generis 15
3 Between Necessity and Contingency: Representing
Legality as a Faustian Pact 33
4 Global Law: From Force and Law to Aggression and Legality 47
5 The Deficiencies of Law before Overwhelming Violence 69
6 A Possible Methodology of Judicial Discourse in Marshalling,
Interpreting, and Construing Aggression Clauses 89
7 Exclusion and Inclusion: From Biopolitics to Biolegality 113
8 Abuse of Legality: The Illegal Use of the Legal 131
9 Reframing Criminal Aggression from Outside to Inside Law 147
10 Legality and Resolving Ambiguity 159
References 167
Index 191
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Table of Cases
A v Secretary of State for the Home Department, 8 December 2005, [2005] UKHL
71, [2005] 3WLR 1249, [2006] 1 All ER 575, [2006] HRLR 6, para 9
Akdivar v Turkey Application Eur. Ct.H.R No: 21893/93 Judgment of 1 April 1998
Atlee v Laird 339 F. Supp. 689 (E. D. Pa. 1972)
Barton v The Queen (1980) 147 CLR 57
Bowman v Secular Society Ltd. [1917] AC, 406
C.R v C.R, 22 November 1995, Case 48/1994/495/577
Clyne v NSW Bar Association (1960) 104 CLR 186
Connelly v DPP [1964] A. C. 1254
Democratic Republic of the Congo v Belgium – Case Concerning the Arrest
Warrant of 11 April 2000 – Judgment – General List No. 121 [2002] ICJ 1 (14
February 2002) Majority Judgment
Democratic Republic of the Congo v Uganda – Case Concerning Armed Activities
On The Territory of the Congo – General List No. 116 [2005] (19 December
2005)
Dole Chadee et al. v Trinidad and Tobago of 29 July 1998 CCPR-14-1/CCPR-
OP-3
DPP v Humphrys [1977] A.C. 1
Engel and Others v the Netherlands (1976) Series A no. 22
Ex P Badhan [1991] 2 QB 78
Ex P Dean [1993] QB 769
Ex P Schmidt Div. Ct. Roch L J & Sedley J 26 November 1993
Ex Parte Brookes (1984) 80 C. Appeal R. 164
Ex parte Quirin 317 U.S. 1 (1942) 1
Frisbie v Collins 342 U.S. 519 (1952)
Greece v the United Kingdom decision of 2 June 1956, 7
Green v U.S. 184 (1957)
Hamdan v Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, et al. Certiorari to the United States
Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit No. 05–184. Argued 28
March 2006 and decided 29 June 2006
Holtzman v Richardson 484 F. 2d. 1307 (2d. Cir. 1973)
Hui Chi-Ming v R [1992] 1 AC 34, 57
International Military Tribunal (IMT) Judgment, 30 September 1946 in 22 Trial
of German Major War Criminals: Proceedings of the International Military
Tribunal Sitting at Nuremburg 411, 444(1950) Opinion and Judgment,
International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1 October 1946), reprinted in