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Case Analysis: Murder as a Crime Under International Law and the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Of Law, Legal Language, and a Comparative Approach to Legal Meaning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2004

Justin Hogan-Doran
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Abstract

Whilst the crime of murder, and its equivalents, is clearly defined and subject to extensive jurisprudence in every jurisdiction, no attempt has been made to give this crime a definition at the international level. For the international criminal tribunals, such as the ICTY, to work effectively, and fairly, this and other major crimes must be clearly defined from the outset. This paper briefly compares the approach to murder as a class of homicide across major legal systems. It reveals that, for all their differences, each system makes many of the same distinctions between classes of homicide, and provides us with similar conceptual tools to help us find a workable and just definition for this most serious of crimes.

Keywords

international criminal lawInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslaviamurder
Type
HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1998 , pp. 165 - 181
Copyright
© 1998 Kluwer Law International

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