MVV196K Mass Atrocity and International Criminal Law

Faculty of Law
Spring 2016
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mark A. Drumbl (lecturer), JUDr. Kateřina Uhlířová, Ph.D., LL.M. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Kateřina Uhlířová, Ph.D., LL.M.
Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Mgr. Věra Redrupová, B.A.
Supplier department: Department of International and European Law – Faculty of Law
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MVV196K/01: Mon 25. 4. 15:05–16:35 140, 16:40–18:10 140, Tue 26. 4. 11:10–12:40 038, 13:30–15:00 038, Wed 27. 4. 8:00–9:30 S125, 8:00–9:30 S126, 9:35–11:05 S125, 9:35–11:05 S126
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
At the end of the course students should be able to:
1) Understand and explain the key offenses in international criminal law, modes of liability, defenses, and sentences
2) Work with information on national legal institutions, international courts, and also interdisciplinary sources such as criminology, anthropology, sociology, and post-colonial theory
3) Make reasoned decisions about the gains but, also, the shortcomings of prosecuting and imprisoning perpetrators of international crimes, in particular, when prosecutions and imprisonment supplant other forms of justice including truth commissions, traditional ceremonies, restitution, memorialization, and restorative justice
4) Make deductions when it comes to realities that criminal law struggles to articulate, that is, human emotions such as forgiveness and vengeance; the reality that perpetrators may be tragic and compromised, and vicitms imperfect; the unevenness, power politics, and selectivity that corrode law’s legitimacy; the relevance of due process; and the expressive value of trials, including show trials
5) Interpret complex legal judgments and account for how they may be explained to victims and how they may serve (or not) to authenticate history
Syllabus
  • Seminar 1: Introduction: Extraordinary Crime, Deviance, Social Psychology; Methods of Justice
  • Drumbl, Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law, ch. 1
  • Seminar 2: Recap of Public International Law; Institutions and Offenses of International Criminal Law
  • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles 5, 6, 7, 8, 12-19
  • Seminar 3: Principles of International Criminal Law
  • Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, articles referenced in the seminar
  • Seminar 4: The Rights of Victims at the International Criminal Court
  • Power-point to be distributed
  • Seminar 5: Victims Who Victimize
  • Drumbl, article
  • Seminar 6: Child Soldiers
  • Utas article, Sheplar article
Literature
  • Articles and Materials to be distributed or made available on-line.
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
written essay
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2016, recent)
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