‘Cruel Men Can Do Kind Things
                    and Kind Men Can Do Cruel Things’

Stolk, Sofia

doi:10.5553/njlp/221307132018047002004

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“…Nevertheless, questions of legal procedure, and, especially, the process of assessing the defendant’s criminal responsibility, remain of crucial importance for international criminal justice (Stolk 2018, 156), not least because of its symbolic function (Minkova 2021). The modes of liability demarcate the legal boundaries of “guilt” and “accountability” for international crimes.…”

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A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities

Minkova¹

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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International criminal law (ICL) is premised upon the principle of individual criminal responsibility—the idea that individual persons, rather than states or other entities, bear criminal responsibility for mass atrocities. This principle has been operationalized in practice through the development of various legal theories, technically known as “modes of liability,” that delineate individual contributions to collective forms of violence. However, the modes of liability have been interpreted and applied differently across international courts and tribunals. Crucially, the International Criminal Court has construed those modes in a significantly more restrained manner than previous international tribunals, essentially limiting the set of situations in which a person could be found guilty of an international crime. This article contributes to the interdisciplinary literature on international criminal justice by exploring the social construction of different conceptualizations of the modes of liability in ICL and their transformations over time. Specifically, the framework focuses on the promotion and contestation of ideas among various actors participating in the international criminal justice field and the power dynamics that govern the field. This is a key issue for ICL and global justice because it demarcates the legal boundaries of “guilt” and “accountability” for international crimes.

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A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities

Minkova¹

2023

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‘Cruel Men Can Do Kind Things and Kind Men Can Do Cruel Things’

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A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities

A Battle of Ideas: Modes of Liability and Mass Atrocities

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