Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law

Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Cases, Statutes, and Other Authorities
List of Abbreviations
Part I Introduction and Problem
	1 Introduction
		Overview
		1.1 Context: Why Principles Matter
		1.2 Objectives
		1.3 The Scope of This Work
	2 The Identity Crisis of International Criminal Law
		Overview
		2.1 Context and Argument
		2.2 Interpretive Assumptions
		2.3 Substantive and Structural Conflation
		2.4 Ideological Assumptions (Sovereignty and Progress)
		2.5 After the Identity Crisis: The Deontic Turn
		2.6 Implications
Part II Proposed Solution: A Humanist, Coherentist, Deontic Account
	3 The Humanity of Criminal Justice
		Overview
		3.1 Context and Argument
		3.2 Why Engage with Constraints: A Human Commitment
		3.3 Absorbing Common Criticisms: A Humanistic Account
		3.4 Implications
	4 Fundamentals without Foundations
		Overview
		4.1 Terms: Fundamentals and Foundations
		4.2 Where Can We Find Fundamental Principles?
		4.3 Fundamentals without Foundations: Mid-level Principles and Coherentism
		4.4 Justice: A Coherentist Conversation
	5 Criminal Law Theory in Extremis
		Overview
		5.1 New Challenges for Criminal Law Theory
		5.2 Promising Problems
		5.3 Conclusion
Part III Illustration through Application
	6 An Unresolved Contradiction
		Overview
		6.1 Argument and Resulting Insights
		6.2 The Novel Reach of Command Responsibility
		6.3 The Culpability Contradiction
		6.4 The Stakes
		6.5 First Strategy: Doctrinal Arguments to Sidestep the Contribution Requirement
		6.6 Second Strategy: Characterization as a Separate Offence
		6.7 Other Responses (and the Increasing Mystification of Command Responsibility)
		6.8 Implications
	7 The Outer Limits of Culpability
		Overview
		7.1 What Are the Parameters of “Contribution”?
		7.2 Culpability without Contribution?
		7.3 Implications
	8 The Genius of Command Responsibility
		Overview
		8.1 Problem, Objective, and Themes
		8.2 The Allergy to Negligence
		8.3 A Proposed Justification of Command Responsibility
		8.4 Implications
		8.5 Conclusion
	9 Horizons: The Future of the Justice Conversation
		Overview
		9.1 Mid-level Principles and Coherentism at Work
		9.2 Major and Minor Themes
		9.3 Further Questions
Annex 1 After the Identity Crisis: Responses and Clarifications
Annex 2 The Rise of Joint Criminal Enterprise: Lessons for Reasoning
Annex 3 Bemba: ICC Engagement with Deontic Analysis
Annex 4 The Pendulum Swing? Possible Questions from the Bemba Appeal Judgment
Glossary of Selected Terms
Bibliography
Index