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Ms. Jennifer Trahan

Ms. Jennifer Trahan
Clinical Professor
Center for Global Affairs
New York University

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Criminal Law and Procedure
Criminal Procedure
War Crimes Prosecutions
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Criminal Law and Procedure
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War Crimes Prosecutions
A. Legal Instruments

Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight, Saint Petersburg, 29 November/11 December 1868.

Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (Lieber Code), 24 April 1863.

Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 (Text of the Conventions available on the website of Yale Law School’s Avalon Project).

The Kellogg-Briand Pact, 27 August 1928.

Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating Gas, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, Geneva, 17 June 1925.

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

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 Series, vol. 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 Series, vol. 75, p. 85.

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

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

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 Series, vol. 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 Series, vol. 1125, p. 609.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia,  Security Council resolution 827 (1993) of 25 May 1993, as amended.

Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Security Council resolution 955 (1994) of 8 November 1994, as amended.

Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, Oslo, 18 September 1997, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2056, p. 211.

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Rome, 17 July 1998, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2187, p. 3, as amended.

International Law Commission, Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, 2001.

Convention on Cluster Munitions, Dublin, 30 May 2008, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2688, p. 39.

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, New York, 7 July 2017.

B. Doctrine

J. Trahan, Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Human Rights Watch, 2006.

J. Trahan, Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity A Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Human Rights Watch, 2010.

Tallinn Manual 1.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

C. Additional Resources

ICTR/ICTY/MICT Case Law Database

ICC Case Law Database

RSCSL Archive

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Cases.