ON THE QUESTION OF AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JURISDICTION

(d) How the Statute would confer jurisdiction over serious crimes with an international character.

The statute will require a provision or provisions which confer jurisdiction over international crimes.

The International Court of Justice, however, retains its place as the only international Court of universal character and general jurisdiction.

Currently, the Mexican legal system is incompatible with the establishment of an international criminal jurisdiction.

According to the State party, the concept of jurisdiction is clearly established in international law

The Court's jurisdiction covers all disputes submitted by States for resolution in accordance with international law.

The States parties should accept the court apos s jurisdiction by making a declaration to this effect, analogous to acceptance of the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.

The personal jurisdiction (jurisdiction ratione personae) of a court

That will create certain problems of interpretation regarding the application of the principle of exclusive international jurisdiction.

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The subject matter jurisdiction (jurisdiction ratione materiae) of a court

Using children for military purposes violates international and Sudanese law and is a war crime that falls within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.

Contracting Parties have in accordance with generally accepted principles of international law the responsibility of ensuring that activities under their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment or the natural resources under the jurisdiction of other Contracting Parties or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction.

The International Criminal Court has put into operation the machinery envisaged in its statute for the activation of its jurisdiction.

As the report of the Court notes, it is the only international court of a universal character with general jurisdiction.

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Jurisdiction and Arbitration

As regards the subject matter jurisdiction (jurisdiction ratione materiae) of a court, this should be based on international conventions, such as the Geneva Conventions and Protocols and a prospective Code of Crimes, rather than on national legislation.

But the ICC s creators deemed the waging of aggressive war which the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg called the supreme international crime to be outside the court s jurisdiction.

In this era of proliferating international courts and tribunals, we cannot overstate the importance of the Court's leadership role as the only universal international court with general jurisdiction.

The tremendous differences that exist among the various penal systems constitute a further obstacle to the notion of an international jurisdiction.

The region conducts its own comparison programme independently of the International Comparison Programme, and there are 43 countries in their jurisdiction.

(d) Provision conferring jurisdiction

reconciling conflicts of jurisdiction.

In my capacity as Legal Officer to the Arusha Tribunal, I often travelled to foreign countries to represent this high international jurisdiction.

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, dispensing justice within the jurisdiction assigned to it.

The jurisdiction of the Tribunal is based not only on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but also on any international agreement related to the purposes of the Convention which specifically confers jurisdiction on the Tribunal.

(a) The rights and obligations and the exercise of jurisdiction of coastal States in accordance with the international law of the sea or

Courts of general jurisdiction, on the other hand, did not invoke the Covenant, but sometimes drew on the provisions of other international instruments.

The High Commissioner requests the Higher Council of the Judiciary to resolve conflicts over jurisdiction in accordance with constitutional jurisprudence and international norms.

The Kingdom of Morocco was committing a grave international offence by granting fishing licences for a Territory over which it had no jurisdiction.

Acceptance of the Court's jurisdiction in contentious cases without limitations or restrictions is essential for the proper functioning of the international legal order.

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It has fostered the establishment of additional ad hoc international criminal courts with jurisdiction over such countries as Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Lebanon.

The confinement of the jurisdiction of an international criminal court, at least in the first phase of its operation, to individuals and not States

The United States questions whether all categories of crimes that have an international character should potentially come within the jurisdiction of the criminal court.

It has also been reported that the jurisdiction of the special court has been expanded to consider allegations of violations of international humanitarian law.

84. It is possible that a State party to the statute which elects to use the jurisdiction of an international court may be regarded as in breach of its obligation to prosecute under another treaty where a State to whom extradition has been refused under that treaty does not recognize the jurisdiction of an international court.

Express consent to exercise of jurisdiction

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