Individual Criminal Liability and Collective Civil Responsibility: Do They Reinforce or Contradict One Another?

Thomas M. Franck

Symposium

Individual Criminal Liability and Collective Civil Responsibility: Do They Reinforce or Contradict One Another?

Author: Thomas M. Franck (New York University School of Law)

Abstract

Does the ICJ, in discharging its responsibility under Article IX to establish the “responsibility” of a state for genocide, risk trenching on the jurisdiction now assigned to the ICTY and ICC? And does it risk perpetuating a notion of “collective guilt”?

Keywords: Genocide, Criminal liability, Collective guilt, Government liability

How to Cite: Franck, T. M. (2007) “Individual Criminal Liability and Collective Civil Responsibility: Do They Reinforce or Contradict One Another?”, Washington University Global Studies Law Review. 6(3).