The doctrine of joint criminal action in the ad hoc tribunals and its scope in the Rome Statute

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Keywords: International Criminal Court modes of criminal liability art. 25 (3) (d) Rome Statute Joint Criminal Enterprise theory of control of the act

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Miren Odriozola-Gurrutxaga
Doctoranda en el Departamento de Derecho Público, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián. Miembro de GICCAS/ Grupo de Investigación en Ciencias Criminales, Instituto Vasco de Criminología/Kriminologiaren Euskal Institutua IVAC/KREI, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián.

Abstract

The first judgment of the International Criminal Court has confirmed that article 25 (3) of the Rome Statute adopts the theory of control of the act to distinguish between principals and accessories. On the contrary, since 2003, the ad hoc tribunals’ case law bases the notion of co-perpetration on the Joint Criminal Enterprise doctrine, using a subjective criterion approach. In this article we will first analyze the problems raised by that case law of the ad hoc tribunals, and then, we will study the article of the Rome Statute which apparently most resembles the Joint Criminal Enterprise doctrine: article 25 (3) (d). The article concludes that none of the three categories of that doctrine is included in the said provision.
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Odriozola-Gurrutxaga, M. (2021). The doctrine of joint criminal action in the ad hoc tribunals and its scope in the Rome Statute. Anuario Iberoamericano De Derecho Internacional Penal, 1(1), 86–104. https://doi.org/10.12804/revistas.urosario.edu.co/anidip/a.2861 (Original work published March 25, 2014)
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