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The Judgement of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Vasiljević Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2003

ELENA MARTÍN SALGADO
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Abstract

This case note focuses on two key aspects of the Vasiljević Judgement. The first one is the accused's acquittal of the charge of ‘violence to life and person’ under common Article 3 for the reason that the trial chamber was not satisfied that it constituted a crime under customary international law. The second aspect is the trial chamber's analysis of state practice to identify the definition under customary law of extermination as a crime against humanity.

Keywords

definition of offences under customary international lawextermination as a crime against humanitynullum crimen sine lege
Type
HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 321 - 330
Copyright
© 2003 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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