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STÁT A JEDNOTLIVEC: VZTAHY ODPOVĚDNOSTI V ROZHODOVACÍ PRAXI MEZINÁRODNÍCH SOUDNÍCH ORGÁNŮ
State and Individual: Responsibility Relations in Decision-Making of International Judicial Bodies

Author(s): Ondřej Svaček
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Odpovědnost státu; odpovědnost jednotlivce; Mezinárodní soudní dvůr; genocida; agrese; zločiny proti lidskosti; válečné zločiny.

Summary/Abstract: Submitted paper deals with the issue of interaction between the concepts of state responsibility and individual responsibility in public international law, which is connected with so called concurrent cases, from which the best known is the question of state/individual responsibility for genocide in former Yugoslavia. In the general part the paper specifies the premises of responsibility concurrence and problems resulting from it (range of primary obligations, position of offender of crimes under international law, centralization of international judicial bodies), in its special part, the paper deals primarily with analyse of ICJ judgment in the case Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro and its meaning for criminal responsibility of individual.

  • Issue Year: 2/2008
  • Issue No: SUPPL.
  • Page Range: 222-231
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Czech