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Ms. Paola Gaeta

Ms. Paola Gaeta
Professor of International Law
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

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International Criminal Law
International Criminal Law
Part I
Foundation of Principles of
International Criminal Law
Video | Audio
(27/6/2022, 22 minutes)

Part II
The Pluralism of International Criminal Law
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(27/6/2022, 23 minutes)

Part III
The "Core" International Crimes:
Aggression and War Crimes
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(27/6/2022, 26 minutes)

Part IV
The "Core" International Crimes:
Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide
Video | Audio
(27/6/2022, 31 minutes)

Part V
The System of International Criminal Justice
Video | Audio
(27/6/2022, 35 minutes)
International Criminal Law
International Criminal Law
A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

General Treaty for Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy, Paris, 27 August 1928, League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 94, p. 57.

Agreement by the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic and the Government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics for the prosecution and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis, London, 8 August 1945, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 82, p. 279.

Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Tokyo, 19 January 1946, United States Department of State, Treaties and Other International Acts Series 1589.

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Paris, 9 December 1948, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 78, p. 277.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 31.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 85.

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 135.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 287.

Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others, New York, 21 March 1950, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 96, p. 271.

International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid, New York, 30 November 1973, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1015, p. 243.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 3.

Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts (Protocol II), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 609.

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, New York, 10 December 1984, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1465, p. 85.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaSecurity Council resolution 827 (1993), 25 May 1993.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for RwandaSecurity Council resolution 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994.

Rome State of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 2187, p. 3.

United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, New York, 15 November 2000, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, p. 209.

Statute for the Special Court for Sierra Leone, annexed to the Agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone on the Establishment of a Special Court for Sierra Leone, Freetown, 16 January 2002, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 2178, p. 137.

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, New York, 20 December 2006, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2716, p. 3.

Amendments on the crime of aggression to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Kampala, 11 June 2010, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2922, p. 199.

Statute of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, Security Council resolution 1966 (2010) of 22 December 2010.

B. Jurisprudence
C. Documents

General Assembly resolution 95 (I) of 11 December 1946 (Affirmation of the Principles of International Law recognized by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal).

General Assembly resolution 96 (I) of 11 December 1946 (The Crime of Genocide).

General Assembly resolution 177 (II) of 21 November 1947 (Formulation of the principles recognized in the Charter of the Nürnberg Tribunal and the judgment of the Tribunal).

General Assembly resolution 260 (III) of 9 December 1948 (Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide).

General Assembly Resolution 3314 (XXIX) of 14 December 1974 (Definition of Aggression).

Security Council resolution 1593 (2005) of 31 March 2005.

Security Council resolution 1970 (2011) of 26 February 2011.   

International Law Commission, Draft articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity with commentaries, 2019 (A/74/10, reproduced in Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 2019, vol. II, Part Two).

D. Doctrine

R. H. Jackson, “Report to the President on the Prosecution of Axis War Criminals”, American Journal of International Law, vol. 39, 1945, p. 178.

Yale Law School, “Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal”, in The International Military Tribunal for Germany: Contents of The Nuremberg Trials Collection, vol. I, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945 - 1 October 1946.