Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

dc.contributor.advisorNakhjavani, Salim A
dc.contributor.authorRolffs, Lina
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-12T10:54:16Z
dc.date.available2025-05-12T10:54:16Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.updated2025-05-12T10:24:59Z
dc.description.abstractIn a historical moment, after a couple of decades of development from Nuremberg to the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) set to work in The Hague in 2002, to fight impunity for the most atrocious crimes against international law, having an impact on the international community as a whole.1 This has been welcomed with high expectations from the civil society.2 However, negotiations on an international multilateral level require compromise, and compared to the ideal of a Court with unlimited resources and jurisdiction, the final form of the ICC does not seem to be able to live up to the expectations. The budget of this international institution is very limited, and could and should only cover the costs of proceedings for the very masterminds of crimes,3 which are in turn all too often only possible because of the participation of so many individual criminals.
dc.identifier.apacitationRolffs, L. (2010). <i>Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Global Risk Governance Programme. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41428en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRolffs, Lina. <i>"Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Global Risk Governance Programme, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41428en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRolffs, L. 2010. Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Global Risk Governance Programme. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41428en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Rolffs, Lina AB - In a historical moment, after a couple of decades of development from Nuremberg to the ad hoc tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) set to work in The Hague in 2002, to fight impunity for the most atrocious crimes against international law, having an impact on the international community as a whole.1 This has been welcomed with high expectations from the civil society.2 However, negotiations on an international multilateral level require compromise, and compared to the ideal of a Court with unlimited resources and jurisdiction, the final form of the ICC does not seem to be able to live up to the expectations. The budget of this international institution is very limited, and could and should only cover the costs of proceedings for the very masterminds of crimes,3 which are in turn all too often only possible because of the participation of so many individual criminals. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - universal jurisdiction KW - Rome Statute KW - International Criminal Court LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court TI - Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41428 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/41428
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRolffs L. Going national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Law ,Global Risk Governance Programme, 2010 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41428en_ZA
dc.language.isoen
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentGlobal Risk Governance Programme
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Law
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectuniversal jurisdiction
dc.subjectRome Statute
dc.subjectInternational Criminal Court
dc.titleGoing national: universal jurisdiction and the principle of complementarity in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelLLM
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