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The subject is intended for students with special interest in public international law, particularly international criminal law.

To reach course goals the students are required to prepare every week according to the list of sources and exercises, to prepare answers to provided questions and actively participate in the lectures. Home preparation is thus combined with thematically focused interactive lectures.

Students of the subject include Czech Master´s degree students, Erasmus students and LL.M. students. The work is in English language only

Students of the subject include Czech Master´s degree students, Erasmus students and LL.M. students. The work is in English language only.

Last update: Marešová Svatava, Ing. (19.10.2022)

Obligatory:

Čestmír Čepelka, Pavel Šturma. Mezinárodní právo veřejné. 2008.

Last update: Sojka Miroslav, Mgr. (17.09.2020)

The control of subject is in three areas:

Activity during lectures (i.e. readiness to discuss based on preparation) - represents 30 % of the entire grading. Activity is either successfully gained or not, i.e. either 0 % or 30 %.

Final essay - described below, represents 70 % of the entire grade.

Presence during the lectures at least in 70 % of total amount of lectures. It does not represent part of the final grade, it is condition to write the final essay.

Grading scale:

0 - 50 % 4 (F)

51 - 70 % 3 (E)

71 – 80 % 2- (D)

81 - 90 % 2 (C)

91 – 95 % 1- (B)

96 - 100 % 1 (A)

Final essay:

Students will be given list of three essay topics in the first week of the subject (example: "What are the basis of criticism of the ICC Appeals Chamber's decision on immunity of Al-Bashir?"; "Is the Role of Victims in the Proceedings in front of the ICC Improving Their Rights or Does It Prolongate the Proceedings?" etc.) and their task is to submit an essay of 3.000-3.500 words (excluding bibliography and footnotes) till the beginning of the examination term.

Grading of the essay will be based on the following criteria: knowledge of law (30 %), accuracy, persuasiveness and organization of the argumentation (35 %), scope and relevancy of the sources and footnote aparatus (20%), formal and stylistic format (15 %).

Formal requirements of the essay and its submission rules:

Electronic version in format .doc or .docx

Essay must be submitted in electronic form to the guarantor of the subject latest during the first day of examination term following the semester of the subject (email address lipovsky@prf.cuni.cz).

Formal and stylistic requirements:

Title page contains only name and surname of the student, title of the subject, phrase "essay topic:" and the chosen topic, academic year of the essay submission and number of words of the text of the essay (excluding title page, footnotes and bibliography).

Text of the essay in English language, format Times New Roman, size 12; 1,5 spaces between lines; gaps 0.

The text must be accompanied with footnotes and bibliography. Footnotes only contain references, not argumentation itself.

Literature and other references must use unified quotation system, e.g. OSCOLA International.

Bibliography - divided into sections (treaties, resolutions, books, articles, case-law etc.)

Means of communication:

Moodle and in case of need also MS Teams.

Last update: Lipovský Milan, JUDr., Ph.D. (30.04.2024)

None

Last update: Kohout David, JUDr., Ph.D. (30.06.2022)

Note: the succession of topics may slightly differ.

Lecture 1: Course Introduction, ICC Basic Information

Lecture 2: Sexual and Gender-based Crimes

Lecture 3: The Crime of Aggression

Lecture 4: Forms of Responsibility 1

Lecture 5: Forms of Responsibility 2

Lecture 6: The Principle of Complementarity

Lecture 7: Rights of the Accused

Lecture 8: Immunities

Lecture 9: Victims

Lecture 10: Current Events in International Criminal Law

Lecture 11: Final Lecture

Course Goals / Learning Outcomes:

Goals of the subject are:

- get the students acquainted with the current case-law of the ICC and other international criminal tribunals (when relevant)

- provide platform for critical analysis and group debate about the case-law, its qualities and sources

- provide means to gain experience in presentation of own opinions

Last update: Marešová Svatava, Ing. (19.10.2022)

Examples of basic literature:

articles and chapters in boooks:

chapter 30 in Crawford, James. Brownlie's Principles of Public International Law. 8th ed. Oxford: OUP, 2012. ISBN: 978-0-19-969969-8 (or alternatively 2020 edition)

Kreß, Claus. On the Activation of ICC Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-37939-8

Lipovský, Milan. Mental Element (Mens Rea) of the Crime of Aggression and Related Issues. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-37939-8

Svaček, Ondřej. Al-Bashir and the ICC - Tag, Hide-and-Seek … or Rather Blind Man's Bluff? In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-37939-8

Svaček, Ondřej. Brothers and Sisters in Arms as Victims of War Crimes: Ntaganda Case before the ICC. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law. Vol. 8. Praha: RWW, 2017. ISSN: 1805-0565

Šmigová, Katarína. Rights of the Accused. In: Šturma, P., Lipovský, M. (eds.) 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Prague/Passau: RWW, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-946915-25-6

Uhlířová, Kateřina. Contribution of the International Criminal Court to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes: between Promise and Practice. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-37939-8

Urbanová, Kristýna. The Principle of Complementarity in Practice. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-37939-8

Examples of other literature:

articles and chapters in books:

Caban, Pavel. Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction - Exceptions to Immunity ratione materiae. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law. Vol. 7. Praha: RWW, 2016. ISSN: 1805-0565

De Smet, Simon. All Roads Lead to Rome - Lifting the Veil on the ICC's Procedural Pluriformity. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary. Leiden/Boston: Brill/Nijhoff, 2019. ISBN: 978-90-04-37939-8

Svaček, Ondřej. Human Rights Dimension of the ICC's Complementarity Regime. In: Šturma, Pavel (ed.) Czech Yearbook of Public & Private International Law. Vol. 6. Praha: RWW, 2015. ISSN: 1805-0565

Books (e.g.):

Grzebyk, Patrycja. Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Aggression. London/New York: Routledge, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-138-93510-5

Case-law:

Particular judgments and decisions regarding the topics will be provided for the current year. ICC case law can be found on https://www.icc-cpi.int/

Last update: Lipovský Milan, JUDr., Ph.D. (24.09.2020)

Students are expected to have already passed a subject on public international law and basic orientation in principles of criminal law

Last update: Sojka Miroslav, Mgr. (24.09.2020)

Students are expected to have already passed a subject on public international law and basic orientation in principles of criminal law

Last update: Sojka Miroslav, Mgr. (24.09.2020)