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Introduction: The STL Interlocutory Decision on the Definition of Terrorism – Judicial Ingenuity or Radicalism?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2011

ELIES VAN SLIEDREGT  and
LARISSA VAN DEN HERIK
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HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: Symposium on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon's Appeal Decision on Terrorism
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 2011 , pp. 651 - 654
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2011

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References

1 For more on the creation of the Tribunal by SC Res. 1757 (2008) and its arguable international character, see an earlier LJIL symposium in issue 21(2), with contributions from Frédéric Mégret, William A. Schabas, and Björn Elberling.

2 UN Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Appeals Chamber), Interlocutory Decision on the Applicable Law: Terrorism, Conspiracy, Homicide, Perpetration, Cumulative Charging, STL-11–01/I, 16 February 2011 (hereafter, ‘Decision’).

3 Decision, para. 33.

4 Decision, para. 39.

5 Decision, para. 62.

6 This concerned in particular the narrow interpretation of the ‘means’ element as only including instruments and devices explicitly listed in the definition in Art. 314 of the Lebanese Criminal Code, and the means had to be designed to create a public danger. Decision, paras. 47–55.

7 Decision, para. 62.

8 Decision, paras. 83–130.

9 Decision, para. 83.

10 Ibid.

11 Decision, para. 85.

12 Ibid.

13 Decision, paras. 107–109.

14 Decision, paras. 124–130.

15 Decision, para. 124.

16 Decision, para. 143.

17 Decision, para. 147.

18 Decision, para. 150.

19 Decision, para. 211.

20 Decision, paras. 213–217.

21 Decision, paras. 218–228.

22 Decision, paras. 229–249.

23 Decision, paras. 265–301.