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1-1-2007
Ron Slye
Seattle University School of Law
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Beth Van Schaack and Ron Slye, A Concise History of International Criminal Law (2007),
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A Concise History
of International
Criminal Law
S UBSTANTIVE L AW A NTECEDENTS
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* The Acts effects were not all beneficial or beneficent; part of its enforce-
ment regime involved establishing colonial administrations in the African inter-
ior, putting an anti-slavery guise on the colonial occupation and exploitation of
Africa. Suzanne Miers, Slavery and the Slave Trade as International Issues 1890-
1939, 19(2) Slavery and Abolition 19 (1998).
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* This latter reference to the laws of humanity planted one of the first
seeds of the idea that there were crimes against humanity that were punishable
separate and apart from conventional war crimes.
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* IMT prosecutors attempted to substitute his son Alfried (who ran his
familys armaments company during the war) as a defendant, but the judges
ruled the substitution came too close to trial. Alfried was later tried in subsequent
proceedings for his use of slave labor. As a result of U.S. intervention during the
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Cold War, Krupp was eventually released from prison and his property was
restored to him.
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* The General Assembly established the ILC that year to promote the
progressive development and codification of (primarily) public international
law. The ILC is composed of legal experts and played a key role in creating a
draft code of international crimes and a draft statute for a permanent
international criminal court that served as the starting point for creating the
modern ICC.
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