In Bemba and Beyond, Crimes Adjudged to Commit Themselves

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Professor Diane Marie Amann is Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law. This Trinity Term, she is at Oxford University, as a Research Visitor at the law faculty’s Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a Visiting Fellow at Mansfield College.

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In Bemba and Beyond, Crimes Adjudged to Commit Themselves

June 13, 2018

Diane Marie Amann

And now, it seems, we must fear to endure crimes adjudged to have no cognizable author – crimes that everyone knows occurred, but that escape the assignment of responsibility that is supposed to be an essential function of international criminal justice. Crimes adjudged, as one commentator lamented, to have committed themselves. Provoking these dire sentiments…