Law 2101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: International Law Commission, International Criminal Law, International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia
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Close connections international humanitarian law international criminal law: the two branches overlap, but are not identical. It cannot be said that one subsumes the other. War crimes trials have played a major role in the development of what is commonly referred to as international criminal law. >> breach of the classic structure of international law. Throughout history, once war had come to an end, the victorious powers would quickly met out justice by executing enemy leaders or ordering them into exile. This would occasionally even apply after civil war henry wirz, a confederate camp commander during the us civil war was hanged in 1965 for maltreating prisoners of war; It was sometimes considered possible to prosecute individuals for crimes committed during war and civil conflict, even on the basis of a set of rules that was normally thought to be applicable to states rather than individuals.
