Implementation of international crimes under the Rome Statute into national legal systems
Abstract
The present research paper describes the most traditional ways of Implementation of Rome Statute. The main section of the paper concerns the effect of adopting Core crimes in different countries as well as determine key way of such implementation and its practical results. Such description aims to comprehend and compare the practical questions which arise in the prism of implementation of International Crimes, as well as find good practical answers which are based on states’ experience. Most issues, which will be introduced in this article should answer following important questions: first is whether the states have to implement international regulations on genocide crimes, terrorism, war crimes with crimes against humanity, and second question is arisen due to the definition of International Crimes in national laws. At main part of the research, we discuss the national legal background to implement the regulations of Rome Statute, as a part of International law, as well as analyze foreign countries experience in this direction. In this legal research, three categories of methods were used: philosophical methods, general scientific methods and legal methods. All the methods, including dialectic method, method of analysis and synthesis, historical, sociological and comparative, the method of the general theory of scientific knowledge of social and legal phenomena, as well as, method of systematic analysis, comparative legal method, and logically legal method were used to consider the most traditional ways of Application of the Rome Statute in domestic laws together with all the regulations of international law in general.
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