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Informationen zum Autor André Nollkaemper is Professor of Public International Law and Director of the Amsterdam Center for International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. Harmen van der Wilt is Professor of International Criminal Law and chairman of the Department of Criminal Law at the University of Amsterdam. Klappentext How does international law respond to situations where collective entities order, encourage or allow the committing of international crimes? Zusammenfassung Despite the dominant role of states or organised armed groups in situations where international crimes are committed! the current focus is on individual criminal responsibility. This book explores the ability of international law to respond to situations where collective entities order! encourage or allow international crimes to be committed. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction A. Nollkaemper; 2. The policy context of international crimes H. C. Kelman; 3. Why organizations kill - and get away with it: the failure of law to cope with crime in organizations M. Punch; 4. Men and abstract entities: individual responsibility and collective guilt in international criminal law G. Simpson; 5. A historical perspective: from collective to individual responsibility and back A. Gattini; 6. Command responsibility and organisationsherrschaft: ways of attributing international crimes to the 'most responsible' K. Ambos; 7. Joint criminal enterprise and functional perpetration H. van der Wilt; 8. System criminality at the ICTY E. van Sliedrecht; 9. Criminality of organisations under international law N. Jørgensen; 10. Criminality of organisations: lessons from domestic law - a comparative perspective A. Eser; 11. The collective accountability of organized armed groups for system crimes J. Kleffner; 12. Assumptions and presuppositions: state responsibility for system crimes I. Scobbie; 13. State responsibility for international crimes A. Zimmermann and M. Teichmann; 14. Responses of political organs to crimes by states N. White; 15. Conclusions and outlook A. Nollkaemper and H. van der Wilt....
