Perpetrators and Accessories in International Criminal Law

Neha Jain is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School. She has held research positions at Georgetown University Law Center, and at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg, Germany. Professor Jain completed her BCL and DPhil in law from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar and Jowett Senior Scholar at Balliol College. She served as a law clerk to former Chief Justice VN Khare of the Supreme Court of India and has interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and with the Legal and Treaties Division of India’s Ministry of External Affairs.

• I. Distinctive Features of International Crimes 2 The Origins of Individual Responsibility in International Criminal Law 3 Elements of Joint Criminal Enterprise at the ICTY 4 Variants of JCE and Other Forms of Commission at the Ad Hoc Tribunals 5 ‘Perpetration’ at the International Criminal Court 6 The Principal in English Criminal Law Theory 7 The Principal in German Criminal Law Theory 8 A Theory of Perpetration for International Crimes 9 The Accessory in English Criminal Law Theory 10 The Accessory in German Criminal Law Theory 11 Joint Criminal Enterprise Liability for International Crimes 12 Conclusion

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