Individual Criminal Liability and Collective Civil Responsibility: Do They Reinforce or Contradict One Another?

Authors

Thomas M. Franck, New York University School of Law

Publication Title

Washington University Global Studies Law Review

Abstract

Does the ICJ, in discharging its responsibility under Article IX to establish the “responsibility” of a state for genocide, risk trenching on the jurisdiction now assigned to the ICTY and ICC? And does it risk perpetuating a notion of “collective guilt”?

Recommended Citation

Thomas M. Franck, Individual Criminal Liability and Collective Civil Responsibility: Do They Reinforce or Contradict One Another?, 6 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 567 (2007),
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_globalstudies/vol6/iss3/8