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Protection of Cultural Heritage in International Criminal Law
Ryška, Ivan ; Faix, Martin (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee)
and Key words Master's Thesis: Protection of Cultural Heritage in International Criminal Law Abstract The aim of this master's thesis is mostly showing progressive development in understanding of protection of cultural heritage in International Criminal Law. There is special focus on development in recent years which is illustrated by Al Mahdi case- destroying cultural heritage in Timbuktu before International Criminal Court. This thesis is subdivided into three parts. The firts part is of descriptive nature and its goal is definition of basic notions, specification of issue of protection of cultural heritage and its setting in International Law. It also covers role of international agreements and international organizations in this issue. Finally it examines how International Criminal Law deals with protection of cultural heritage as well. There is stress on explanation of progressive development in understanding of protection of cultural heritage and reasons that caused it. The second part of thesis is mostly focused on Al Mahdi case that was tried before International Criminal Court. First there is brief characteristic of situation in Mali during armed conflict and description of area that was damaged too. Then there is specification of objective elements of crime and description of approach of...
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Duress as Ground for Excluding Criminal Responsibility in International Criminal Law
Hladíková, Eva ; Bílková, Veronika (referee) ; Honusková, Věra (referee)
This thesis aims on the issue of duress as ground for excluding criminal responsibility in international criminal law. Duress arises from a situation when a perpetrator is forced under a threat of immediate death or bodily harm to commit a crime under international law. This thesis shortly explores duress in national legal systems, especially the differences between the duress in common law and in civil law jurisdiction. It further considers the use of duress as an argument of defence in history of international criminal law and focuses on two key judicial decisions in this area - the Einsatzgruppen case decided by the American military tribunal after the Second World War and Erdemović case decided by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. This thesis discusses with complexity the individual characteristics and conditions of duress. These characteristics and conditions are as follows: i) conduct alleged to constitute a crime under international law, ii) threat of imminent death or of serious bodily harm, iii) necessary acts to avoid threat (subsidiarity) iv) reasonable acts to avoid threat (proportionality), v) the situation leading to duress must not have been voluntarily brought about by the person coerced and vi) person coerced did not have a duty to bear this threat. Duress...
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Bohuslav Ečer-his life and work
Dudáš, Michal ; Hnilica, Jiří (advisor) ; Koura, Petr (referee)
In my thesis I focused on the czech lawyer and jurist JUDr. Bohuslav Ečer. He became one of the main ideologist of international criminal law thanks to his hard work . He represeted Czechoslovakia during the Nuremberg trials after World War II.
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Legal Aspects of Cooperation between the International Criminal Court and the Czech Republic
Opatová, Helena ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee)
1 Abstract This thesis presents an analysis of the mutual relationship between the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the legislation of the Czech Republic with a special regard to the legal obligation of the Czech Republic to cooperate with the International Criminal Court. The Czech Republic committed itself by the ratification of the Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute) to provide international judicial cooperation to the International Criminal Court. For this reason the thesis attempts, via analysis of legal instruments, to compare the link between the Rome Statute and the relevant Czech legislation, especially the constitutional and criminal law. The purpose of this thesis was to find answers for the following questions: whether the Rome Statute is in accordance with the constitutional order of the Czech Republic, whether the crimes in the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court are sufficiently covered by the Czech criminal law and whether the Czech law allows procedural steps required by the Rome Statute.
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Development of international criminal law in the context of the war in former Yugoslavia
Hlaváček, David ; Hýbnerová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Bílková, Veronika (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze Právnická fakulta David Hlaváček ROZVOJ MEZINÁRODNÍHO TRESTNÍHO PRÁVA V KONTEXTU VÁLKY V BÝVALÉ JUGOSLÁVII Diplomová práce Vedoucí diplomové práce: doc. PhDr. Stanislava Hýbnerová, CSc. Katedra mezinárodního práva Datum uzavření rukopisu: 21. ledna 2015 Summary of the Thesis: The introductory historical overview (chapter two) gives an insight into the merits of the military conflict in the former Yugoslavia and lists the most fundamental causes behind this scandalous period of modern European history. Next, in chapter three, the thesis focuses on the impacts of this ongoing war on the international communities and their reactions, as well as on the particular measures taken by the United Nations, the universal platform established for these purposes. The most significant of these measures is undoubtedly the establishing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which prosecutes crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and violations of the laws or customs of war. For the first time after forty years, the international criminal law had been applied. Before that, there was no institution entitled to enforce this law within the international criminal justice. In chapter four, the ICTY is characterized and described,...
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Circumstances excluding liability in international criminal law
Hodysová, Eliška ; Šturma, Pavel (advisor) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee)
Grounds for Excluding Criminal Responsibility in International Criminal Law This thesis aims on currently two most discussed grounds for excluding criminal responsibility (defenses) in international criminal law: defense of duress and defense of superior order. First of them emerges from a situation in which a perpetrator is forced by threat to commit a crime under international law. The second one addresses a question whether a person should be re- sponsible for a crime committed pursuant to an order of a Government or of a superior. Regarding the structure of the army, it is not surprising that there these two defenses occur together in many cases and that they arise from the very same situation. However, they should not be mistaken one for another. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the most significant case law on the topic and to research what was the background for the formulation of the articles on defense of duress and superior order in the Rome Statute of ICC. The paper also examines the deficiencies of the regulation of duress and superior order in the Rome Statute and their possible improvement. The thesis is composed of 5 chapters. The first chapter is introductory and describes used meth- odology of the paper and its structure. Chapter number two deals with grounds for excluding...
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Duress as a defence in international criminal law
Hladíková, Eva ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Šturma, Pavel (referee)
This thesis aims on the issue of duress as ground for excluding criminal responsibility in international criminal law. Duress arises from a situation when a perpetrator is forced under a threat of immediate death or bodily harm to commit a crime under international law. This thesis shortly explores duress in national legal systems, especially the differences between the duress in common law and in civil law jurisdiction. It further considers the use of duress as an argument of defence in history of international criminal law and focuses on two key judicial decisions in this area - the Einsatzgruppen case decided by the American military tribunal after the Second World War and Erdemović case decided by the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia. This thesis discusses with complexity the individual characteristics and conditions of duress. These characteristics and conditions are as follows: i) conduct alleged to constitute a crime under international law, ii) threat of imminent death or of serious bodily harm, iii) necessary acts to avoid threat (subsidiarity) iv) reasonable acts to avoid threat (proportionality), v) the situation leading to duress must not have been voluntarily brought about by the person coerced and vi) person coerced did not have a duty to bear this threat. Duress...
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The position of victims of human rights violation in international law with a special regard to victims of serious violation of human rights and humanitarian international law
Kristková, Veronika ; Hýbnerová, Stanislava (advisor) ; Ondřej, Jan (referee) ; Jeřábková, Věra (referee)
Ph.D. Thesis ABSTRACT Mgr. Veronika Kristková, LL.M., 2013 Position of victims of human rights violations in international law with focus on victims of serious violations of human rights and international humantiarian law This work focuses within the broad theme of " Position of the victims of the human rights violations in international law" on victims of serious human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law (hereinafter only serious violations). The author decided to focus on the victims of serious violations because the research revealed that while the rights of victims of human rights violations are in general relatively settled in theory as well in practice of international law, the rights of the victims of serious violations is an area, which raises several doctrinal questions, encountered rapid development in recent years and continues to develop. Analysis of the rights of the victims of serious violations necessary must be based on the rights of the victims of human rights violations in general, which serves as a baseline for the analysis of the rights of the victims of serious violations. Only in comparison with the general rights of the victims of human rights violations the specificities of the rights of the victims of serious violations stand up. First the work...
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Immunity of State Officials under International Criminal Law
Dürr, Christoph ; Bílková, Veronika (advisor) ; Balaš, Vladimír (referee)
This thesis presents an analysis of the history and current state of state official immunity in international criminal law. First, I define the most relevant legal concepts. These include: (a) individual criminal responsibility; (b) international criminal law; (c) criminal jurisdiction; (d) the distinction between state immunity, diplomatic immunity, and immunity of state senior state officials; (e) imunity ratione personae and immunity ratione materiae; and (f) state officials. Given the distinictions between national and international fora, different sets of legal issues concerning immunity arise before them. I thus deal with the two types of immunity seperately. In so doing, I present and analyze specific court descisions supporting or rejecting immunity. I argue that the case law and doctrine indicate that a number of conceptual questions remain unresolved.
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