The law's responses to massacres seem to vacillate between two models: (i) the model of the ‘criminal law of the enemy' inspired by the national criminal law and rendered topical again by the attacks of September 11; (ii) the model of the ‘criminal law of inhumanity' symbolized by the paradigm...

Since 11 September 2001, a new paradigm has developed in criminal law. Parallel to the idea of the war on terror, a paradigm based around war on crime has emerged. Inevitably, however, a paradigm of war leads to abandoning scientific approaches based on a legal-moral vision (crime, guilt and...

The author discusses the interaction between international and national law in determining whether a case is admissible from the viewpoint of complementarity (Article 17 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court) and with regard to the concept of 'interests of justice' (Article 53 of...