special tribunal for lebanon; a different perspective in international criminal law

Personality disorders and criminal law: an international perspective.

At the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), a detention camp guard, charged with acts of murder and torture, advanced a plea of diminished responsibility. Defense psychiatrists testified that he had a personality disorder that influenced his ability to control his behavior, but a prosecution expert testified that the guard did not meet Diagnostic and Statistical M...

International Union of Criminal Law

defenses in international criminal law

one of the most important issues in international criminal law is defenses. this issue has also significance in national law. in civil and criminal law system, there is a different approach with this question. the lawyers have named this question as forgotten point in international criminal law. international and national jurisprudence is often different and controversial in this matter. there ...

Iran’s Criminal Policy Regarding Double Punishment in International Criminal Law

Different nations’ tendency to expand their judicial and legislative territory outside their ruling kingdom has caused conflicts in the criminal qualification and the coming into existence of legal bad effects. Among these bad effects is the double or additional punishment of someone who has been tried and received their penalty in another country before, which is at odds with the principles of...

Victims\' Law Seen from the Perspective of Fair Trial and Ethics in the Criminal Procedure Code of 2013 and the International Criminal Court Statute

Background: With the idea of victim protection emerging and the emergence of supportive victimology in the twentieth century, the forgotten position of the victim in the criminal process has been restored and its findings expressed in the form of universal standards for victim protection. Support for the victim is indispensable and indisputable in criminal proceedings. This support has various ...

The international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the forensic pathologist: ethical considerations.

Since 1991, war crimes in the former Yugoslavia have been the subject of several international medico-legal investigations of mass graves within the framework of inquiries led by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Forensic pathologists involved in the ICTY missions could be subjected to ethical tensions due to the difficulties of the missions, the emergent con...