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4. War crimes

A. Cassese, Paola Gaeta, Laurel Baig, Mary D. Fan, Christopher Gosnell, Alex Whiting

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This chapter begins with a discussion of the notion of war crimes. It then covers the criminalization of the serious violation of a rule of international humanitarian law; the objective and subjective elements of war crimes; the nexus with armed conflict; and war crimes in the International Criminal Court Statute.

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Key concepts: Criminalization, War crime, Nexus (standard), Political science, Law, Statute, Law of war, Criminology