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Universal Civil Jurisdiction: Is it Legal? Is it Desirable?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Menno T. Kamminga
Menno T. Kamminga*
Affiliation:
Maastricht University Maastricht Centre for Human Rights
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Universal Civil Jurisdiction—The Next Frontier?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 99 , 2005 , pp. 123 - 125
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 21 ILM (1982) 891.

2 35 ILM (1996) 397.

3 It should not be assumed, however, that the commission was speaking for the European Community as a whole. In their joint amicus brief in this case Australia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom took a more restrictive position and argued that the exercise of universal civil jurisdiction was inconsistent with international law.

4 For an opposing view, see Stephens, Beth, Translating Filártiga: A Comparative and International Law Analysis of Domestic Remedies for International Human Rights Violations, 27 Yale J. of Int'l Law 1 (2002)Google Scholar