The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga
The article deals with the basic criteria involved in the selection of situations to be investigated and cases to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court. These are examined in light of the goals of international criminal justice and the structural and evidentiary difficulties encount...
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The article deals with the basic criteria involved in the selection of situations to be investigated and cases to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court. These are examined in light of the goals of international criminal justice and the structural and evidentiary difficulties encountered by judicial mechanisms of international mission and composition. The analysis focuses on the limits of prosecutorial discretion at the level of international criminal justice. The Mavi Marmaraship incident is used hereto as a key point of reference.
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| spelling | doaj.art-8834cd7ca021448b8ae667bc39c326f52022-12-22T03:27:39ZengUniversity of BergenBergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice1894-41832022-05-0110110.15845/bjclcj.v10i1.3686The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara sagaEmmanouil Billis0Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg/Germany. The article deals with the basic criteria involved in the selection of situations to be investigated and cases to be prosecuted before the International Criminal Court. These are examined in light of the goals of international criminal justice and the structural and evidentiary difficulties encountered by judicial mechanisms of international mission and composition. The analysis focuses on the limits of prosecutorial discretion at the level of international criminal justice. The Mavi Marmaraship incident is used hereto as a key point of reference. https://boap.uib.no/index.php/BJCLCJ/article/view/3686goals of international criminal justiceInternational Criminal Courtprosecutorial discretionsufficient gravity |
| spellingShingle | Emmanouil Billis The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice goals of international criminal justice International Criminal Court prosecutorial discretion sufficient gravity |
| title | The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga |
| title_full | The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga |
| title_fullStr | The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga |
| title_full_unstemmed | The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga |
| title_short | The limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level: The Mavi Marmara saga |
| title_sort | limits of discretion in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes at the international level the mavi marmara saga |
| topic | goals of international criminal justice International Criminal Court prosecutorial discretion sufficient gravity |
| url | https://boap.uib.no/index.php/BJCLCJ/article/view/3686 |
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