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2 Int'l Crim. L. Rev. 261 (2002)
German Criminal Law and the Rome Statute - A Critical Analysis of the New German Code of Crimes against International Law

handle is hein.journals/intcrimlrb2 and id is 271 raw text is: LA International Criminal Law Review 2: 261-282, 2002. 261 if 9 © 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. German Criminal Law and the Rome Statute - A Critical Analysis of the New German Code of Crimes against International Law HELMUT SATZGER* Introduction Following the tragic and inconceivable events of II September 2001 in New York, international criminal law has unexpectedly come to the fore. Until recently the question of how the perpetrators of such momentous attacks should be held responsible on an international level would have merely been a theoretical one. However, in recent years, a quantum leap has taken place in the development of an international jurisdiction, opening up entirely new perspectives. Whilst ad hoc tribunals, which are based on Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations as measures to keep global peace and international security, had to be established to try the crimes and massacres in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia,' the Rome Statute of 17 July 19982 in- stituting the International Criminal Court (ICC) now offers an unprecedented and trend-setting way to bring international crimes before a global criminal court which is acknowledged world-wide. More quickly than even optimists * Helmut Satzger is the holder of the chair for German and International Criminal Law, Business Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and European Law at the University of Augsburg (Germany). For valuable help the author would like to thank his assistants Laurent Lafleur and Florian Melloh, LLM. Thanks also to Dr Julia Ellins, LLB, LLM, for her help with the English version. 1 Cf., in general, Kittichaisaree, International Criminal Law, 2001, p. 22 et seq. 2 The original text and a German translation can be found in Bundestag-Drucksache (doc- ument) 14/2682, p.9 et seq. Amongst numerous publications dealing with the ICC are: Ambos, Zeitschrift for die gesamte Strafrechtswissenschaft (ZStW) 111 (1999), 176 et seq.; Ambos, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 1998, 3743; Blanke/Molitor, Archiv des V61kerrechts (AVR) 39 (2001), 142 et seq.; Fastenrath, Juristische Schulung (JuS) 1999, p. 632: Gil Gil, Zeitschrift fir die gesainte Strafrechtswissenschalt (ZStW) 112 (2000), 381 et seq.; Seidel/Stahn, Juristisehe Ausbildung (Jura) 1999, 14 et seq.; Stahn, Europdische Grundrechte Zeitschrift (EuGRZ) 1998.577 et seq.; Huet/Koering-Jouhn, Droit penal international, 2. ed., 2001, p. 31 et seq.

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