The 2nd Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Moot

Hong Kong

(28 February 2004)

 

 

LIST OF MATERIALS

 

Relevant treaties:

-  Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949.

-  Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.

- United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948.

-  Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 17 July 1998.

- Elements of Crimes, agreed upon by the ICC Preparatory Commission at its fifth session in New York, 12-30 June 2000.

 

Students may also find it helpful to consult the Statutes of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR) as well as the Charter of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg. The Geneva Conventions are available via the ICRC-website (www.icrc.org). The Documents relating to the ICC can be found via www.un.org/law/icc/index.html. The text of the Genocide Convention is available at a number of websites, for example via the website of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/p_genoci.htm.

 

Relevant case law:

 

International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg (www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm):

 

- The United States of America, the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – v – Hermann Wilhelm Göring et al., 30 September 1948

(http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Streicher2.htm)

 

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (www.un.org/icty):

 

- The Prosecutor – v – Zejnil Delalic, Zdravko Mucic, Hazim Delic, Esad Lanzo, Judgement, 16 November 1998 (Celebici judgement)

- The Prosecutor – v – Tihomir Blaskic, Judgement, 3 March 2000

- The Prosecutor – v – Zejnil Delalic, Zdravko Mucic, Hazim Delic, Esad Lanzo, Appeals Chamber, Judgement, 20 Februar 2001

- The Prosecutor – v – Dario Kordic and Mario Cerkez, Judgement, 26 February 2001

- The Prosecutor – v – Radislav Kristic, Judgement, 2 August 2001.

- The Prosecutor – v – Milorad Krnojelac, Judgement, 15 March 2002

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (www.ictr.org):

 

- The Prosecutor – v – Jean-Paul Akayesu, Judgement, 2 September 1998

- The Prosecutor – v – Clement Kayeshema and Obed Ruzindana, Judgement 21 May 1999

- The Prosecutor – v – Georges Ruggiu, Judgement, 1 June 2000

 

Suggested materials:

 

• Antonio Cassese/Gaeta/Jones (eds.), The Rome Statute of the ICC: A Commentary, Oxford 2002

• Ingrid Detter, The Law Of War, Cambridge 2000

• William J. Fenrick, Attacking the Enemy Civilian as a Punishable Offense, in: 7 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law, p. 539-569 (available via: www.law.duke.edu/journals/djcil/articles/djcil7p539.htm)

• Kriangsak Kittichaisaree, International Criminal Law, Oxford 2001

• Hilaire McCoubrey/Nigel D. White, International Law and Armed Conflict, Dartmouth Publishing, Aldershot/Vermont, 1992

• Habib Slim, Protection of the Red Cross and Red Crescent emblems and the repression of misuse, in: International Review of the Red Cross 1989 (272), p.420-437 (available via the website of the ICRC, www.icrc.org)

 • William Schabas, Genocide in International Law, Cambridge 2000