| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Description: | This course will address the origins and growth of international criminal law and its institutions (including but not limited to the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the Special Court for Sierra Leone). In the process, it will discuss the legal requirements for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and aggression. It will also discuss theories of liability and defenses. The class will be very sensitive to history, discussing mass atrocities, wars and conflicts that have given rise to the use of international criminal law. Those events include but are not limited to the Holocaust, the Rwanda Genocide, the Bosnia Genocide, the civil wars in Sudan and Syria and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. |
| Prerequisite: | None |
Salmon P. Chase College of Law
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