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A Call for a More Rigorous Assessment of Universal Jurisdiction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Sienho Yee
Sienho Yee*
Affiliation:
Wuhan University Institute of International Law; Chinese Journal of International Law; membre associé, Institut de droit international
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Domestic Treatment of Universal Jurisdiction
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 107 , 2013 , pp. 242 - 245
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2014

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References

1 Christian Tomuschat, Rapporteur of the Commission of the Institut de droit international (IDI) on Universal Criminal Jurisdiction, 71(11) Annuaire de IDI 257 (2006).

2 IDI Resolution adopted in Krakow, 2005, para. 1, http://www.idi-iil.org/idiF/resolutionsF/2005_kra_03_fr.pdf.

3 See American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law, Third, Foreign Relations Law of the United States § 404, and associated comments and notes.

4 Barcelona Traction, Light & Power Co., Second Phase, Judgment, 1970 ICJ Rep. 3 (Feb. 5), at 32, para. 33.

5 Armed Activities in the Territory of the Congo (New App. 2002) (D.R.C. v. Rwanda), Judgment, 2006 ICJ Rep. (Feb. 3), at 31–32, para. 64.

6 East Timor (Portugal v. Australia), Judgment, 1995 ICJ Rep. 90 (June 30), at 102, para. 29.

7 Judgment, 2012 ICJ Rep., at http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/143/16883.pdf, esp. para. 93.

8 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 78 U.N.T.S. 277 (entered into force Jan. 12, 1951).

9 See Yee, supra note *, 511–24.

10 Arrest Warrant of 11 April 2000 (D.R.C. v. Belgium), Judgment, Joint Separate Opinion of Judges Higgins, Kooijmans, and Buergenthal, 2002 ICJ Rep. 63 (Feb. 14), at 74–75, para. 41.

11 See Yee, supra note *, 520–21, para. 34.

12 Joint Separate Opinion, supra note 10, paras. 49–54.

13 ILC Annual Report 2011, UN Doc. A/66/10, 50–170. A computer search for “Lotus” in this section does not reveal any occurrence.

14 2012 ICJ Rep. (July 20), at http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/144/17064.pdf.

15 Joint Separate Opinion, supra note 10, para. 41.