Hierarchia zbrodni w prawie międzynarodowym

Państwo i Prawo 2016, nr 1, s. 58-72.

The author argues whether it is possible to build the hierarchy of the core crimes in international law in the light of international documents and specifically the Statute and practice of International Criminal Court. Arguments are focused on the meaning and application of gravity which is the element of the mechanism of admissibility and at the same time the element of imposing a sentence by the ICC. Gravity seems to replace the hierarchy of crimes as a factor allowing to build conclusions relating to the committed crimes.

Przesłanki dopuszczalności wykonywania jurysdykcji przez Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny : studium międzynarodowoprawne

Warszawa : Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2016

ISBN 9788373838147

331 stron. Bibliografia na stronach 301-314. Indeksy.

Zbrodnie przeciwko dziedzictwu kulturowemu przed Międzynarodowym Trybunałem Karnym : analiza krytyczna

Studia Prawnicze 2016, nr 1, s. 39-63.

Współautorstwo: Jakubowski, Andrzej

On 24 March 2016 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a decision confirming the charges of committing war crimes by Al Ahmad Al Mahdi (Abu Tourab). He is suspected of war crimes allegedly committed in 2012, in Timbuktu (Mali), through intentionally directing attacks against buildings dedicated to religion and/or historical monuments (Article8(2)(e)(iv) of the Rome Statute). In fact, this is the first case to be brought before the ICC concerning the destruction of cultural property. By referring to the circumstances of the case, this article analyses the complimentary function of international criminal tribunals in the prosecuting and convicting of individuals liable for grave cultural heritage crimes vis-à-vis the shortcomings of national criminal jurisdiction. First, it reconstructs the normative foundations of prohibiting and prosecuting cultural heritage crimes. Second, it endeavours to critically assess the practice of international criminal tribunals ad hoc in dealing with the destruction of cultural property. In particular, by referring to certain cases adjudged by the ICTY, it aims to demonstrate to what extent the international protective status of a cultural heritage site may constitute a critical factor in imposing criminal responsibility on individual perpetrators (the cases of Blaškić, Čerkez and Strugar). It also analyses whether intentional attacks against cultural heritage sites, whose protection lies in the general interest of all humanity, may have an impact on the gravity of the crime and the penalty imposed for its commission. Third, the paper deals with the limited provisions of the Rome Statute and offers some general conclusions in respect to the evolving system of individual criminal responsibility for cultural heritage crimes.

Zasada komplementarności przed MTK z perspektywy suwerenności państw

Idee, normy i instytucje Kongresu Wiedeńskiego - 200 lat później : perspektywa prawnomiędzynarodowa / redaktorzy naukowi: Jerzy Menkes, Ewelina Cała-Wacinkiewicz, Joanna Nowakowska-Małusecka, Władysław Pęksa, Wojciech Szczepan Staszewski. Warszawa : C.H. Beck, 2016, s. 193-210.

Sufficient domestic proceedings : the standard of national criminal proceedings before the ICC in Context of Art. 17 of the Rome Statute

Prosecuting international crimes : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Bartłomiej Krzan. Leiden ; : Boston : Brill Nijhoff, copyright 2016, s. 255-273.