Authorship in cases of organized irresponsibility: a proposal for systematization of the criteria of the International Criminal Court

Established in 2002, the International Criminal Court was the first permanent court with jurisdiction to investigate and judge crimes against humanity. Although recent, the Court has a significant number of precedent cases, in which it has set criteria to define perpetrators and acessories. The critical evaluation of the choices of a Court depends firstly on having a general view of which are those choices. This essay analy- ses and systematizes, by a decision diagram, the criteria established in the precedents of the International Criminal Court to define perpetrators and acessories.