Courses

    International criminal law includes both the application of a nation's criminal law to conduct committed abroad, and the law governing international crimes (such as genocide) and tribunals like the International Criminal Court. The course has four aims: (1) to introduce students to basic international law concepts (customary and conventional law, theories of transnational jurisdiction, the role of international law in domestic courts); (2) likewise, to introduce students to basic concepts of criminal liability (the principle of legality, mens rea, command and accomplice liability, defenses); (3) to examine the law governing international crimes against human rights – genocide, crimes against humanity, torture – and the international tribunals that apply it (Nuremberg, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court); and (4) to examine the application of U.S. criminal law to conduct committed abroad.