Imagine you were a judge of the Nuremberg trials and you were sent to the ICC in 2020

Quenivet, Noelle

Abstract

The premise of my presentation today is that the definition of war crimes in the Nuremberg Principles is a ‘mother’ definition, one that can lead to the criminalisation of further violations of international humanitarian law. After all, Principle VI(b) on war crimes starts with ‘[v]iolations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to’ and is followed by several examples of such crimes. In other words, to be war crimes, acts either fall explicitly in one of these listed categories or are similar enough to amount to war crimes. I believe that this list can adapt itself and easily embrace a new Weltanschauung. To demonstrate this, I pose a thought experiment.

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Conference Name: The Nuremberg Principles: The Contemporary Challenges
• Start Date: Feb 27, 2023
• End Date: Mar 27, 2023
• Deposit Date: Mar 31, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 4, 2023
• Keywords: international criminal law; child soldiers; sexual violence; armed conflict; Nuremberg
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10604211
• Related Public URLs: https://www.nurembergacademy.org/events/detail/f14016152bd81e0ead8e77800cba077d/the-nuremberg-principles-conference-in-washington-dc-646/