Darryl Robinson’s scientific contributions

... An unsealed arrest warrant against an acting president and a president of a country with permanent membership in the UN Security Council is unprecedented. The arrest warrant focuses on the deportation of Ukrainian children as a war crime (ICC 2023;Kersten 2023;Vasiliev 2023). ...

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Between (ir)responsibility and (in)appropriateness: Conceptualizing norm-related state behaviour in the Russian war against Ukraine

... 10 As exceptionally egregious acts, few would disagree that genocide, 2 Ibid. 3 Ibid. 4 The branch of public international law that deals with the direct criminal responsibility of individuals for criminal violations of international law (Cryer 2018;Stahn 2019). 5 Universal jurisdiction is the legal principle that grants every state the jurisdiction to punish offences that are universally condemned and are recognized as being of universal concern, irrespective of the place where the offence was committed or the nationalities of the perpetrator and the victim (Randall 1988;Bassiouni 2001;Reydams 2003). ...

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International criminalization and the historical emergence of international crimes

... Even some sceptics lauded these developments. Thus, Geoffrey Robertson QC, a severe critic of the international regime, still saw many promising aspects in his text "Crimes against Humanity" (Robertson, 1999). For example, writing in the emergence of international criminal law, he stated that this was why it has been the great achievement of international law, at the close of the twentieth century, to lift the veil of sovereign statehood far enough to make individuals responsible for the crimes against humanity committed by the states they formerly commanded, while at the same time developing a rule that those states have a continuing duty to prosecute and punish them, failing which the international community may bring them to justice. ...

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Remedying the retreat in the protection of citizens international human rights

... In both situations, the resolutions were adopted in response to serious violations of IHL and human rights, allowing the ICC to act on crimes committed in these contexts. According to Cryer et al. (2019), these referrals highlight the importance of the Security Council as a bridge between the collective responsibilities of the UN and international justice mechanisms. However, they also illustrate the challenges inherent in its political functioning. ...

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El cambio estratégico de Estados Unidos y el derecho internacional humanitarioUnited States’ strategic shift and International Humanitarian Law: Implicaciones para la guerra entre Rusia y UcraniaImplications for the Russia-Ukraine war