The Responsibility of States for International Crimes [Paperback]

This book focuses on the concept of state responsibility for international crimes, which gained support following the First World War, but was pushed into the background by the development of the principle of individual criminal responsibility under international law after the Second World War. Jorgensen considers the history and merits of a concept that, it is argued, is currently on the threshold betweenlex ferendaandlex lata.

PART I: Historical Introduction to the Concept of State Criminality
1. International Criminal Responsibility in the Two World Wars
2. Efforts to Codify and Develop the Law Relating to International Criminal Responsibility
PART II: Juridical Status of the Concept of State Criminality
3. The Concept of Criminal Organizations
4. The Criminal Responsibility of Corporations
Conclusion to Part II
PART III: Candidate Criteria and Indicia for Idenitifying State Crimes
Introduction to Part III
5.Jus cogens
6. Obligationserga omnes
7. International Community Recognition
8. The Seriousness Test
9. The Conscience of Mankind
10. Elementary Considerations of Humanity
11. Peace and Security
12. Individual Criminal Responsibility under International Law
Conclusion to Part III
PART IV: Practical Feasibility of the Concept of State Criminality
Introduction to Part IV
13. The Problems and Modalities of Punishing a State
14. Punitive Damages in International Law
15. The Institutional Framework and Procedures for Imposing Criminal Responsibility on States
Conclusion to Part IV
PART V: Status of the Concept of State Criminality in Contemporary International Law
16. State Practice since the Second World War
17. State Criminality and the Significance of the 1948 Genocide Convention
Conclusion
Appendices