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Gaddafi

France.  20 October 2000 ; 13 March 2001 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

State immunity — Jurisdiction — Head of State — Scope of immunity of Head of State in office — Whether commission of international crime precluding Head of State from relying on State immunity — Whether such exception to immunity now recognized as rule of customary international law — Whether such exception applicable to terrorist offences

Relationship of international law and municipal law — Crimes against international law — Terrorism — Punishment of terrorist crimes by municipal courts — Whether requirement to prosecute such crimes constituting a rule of jus cogens — Whether such rules automatically incorporated into domestic legal order — The law of France

Type
Case Report
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 2004

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