Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Liss, Ryan
• 署名单位: Western University (University of Western Ontario)
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.1017/ajil.2019.52
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 727-771
• 关键词: HUMAN-RIGHTS; LAW; PIRACY; JURISDICTION; PHILOSOPHY; PUNISHMENT; authority; Empire; STATES

摘要

The scope of international criminal jurisdiction poses a fundamental challenge for criminal law theory. Prevailing justifications for the state's authority to punish crime assume the existence of connections between the state and either the criminal or the crime that are not always present in the international criminal context. Recognizing this gap, this Article introduces a new theory of what distinguishes international crimes from domestic crimes and justifies the unusual scope of international criminal jurisdiction. As this Article explains, international crimes are unique in the way they undermine international society's structure as a system of sovereign states.