Recueil des Cours, 1999

"In his course, Julio Barboza, Professor at the Catholic University of Buenos Aires, intends to deal with the principal infringements on international criminal law and to follow them from the Nuremberg trials to their formulation in the Statute of a Permanent Criminal Court. Professeur Barboza starts by a very succinct introduction to the fundamental concepts of international criminal law and by tracing a short history of it. He then examines the general lines of the evolution of the criminal offences starting with the Nuremberg trials, as well as the concept of criminal responsibility in international law. Chapter III deals with individual and State responsibility in criminal matters. His purpose is to expose the internal structure of attribution (imputation) of international crimes. He also considers the debated matter of State crimes, taking into consideration the present developments in the International Law Commission. In the last part of the course the author develops the subject of international tribunals: first the tribunals of Nuremberg and Tokyo and the ad hoc tribunals created by the Security Council, and finally, the International Permanent Criminal Court"--Publisher's description.