During this course, you will:

•  become familiar with the constituent elements of certain (international) crimes, the criteria of jurisdiction of national criminal courts (in particular, French) and the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court

• discover the history of international criminal justice, international crimes and the prosecution (at two levels) of these crimes

• Introduction

• PART 1: DEFINING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES
  • Chapter 1: The specificity of (core) international crimes
  • Chapter 2: Categories of core international crimes
• PART 2: PROSECUTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMES AT A DOMESTIC LEVEL
  • Chapter 1: Criminal jurisdiction principles
  • Chapter 2: Concurring criminal jurisdictions

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

• better understand the issues of criminal law at the international level and the specificities (substantive and procedural) of international crimes

• go further, if you wish, by comparing the criteria of jurisdiction of the criminal courts of other States of your interest, or by analyzing the modalities of prosecution of transnational crimes in order to reflect on the relevance of prosecutions on a global scale

How will you be evaluated:

1st session: Continuous assessment, oral participation during classes (including two debates) and two written assessments (30 min and 1h) : practical cases, questions, study of texts…

Resit session: 1 hour written exam in class. Practical cases, questions, study of texts

M.C. BASSIOUNI, International criminal law. Volume I. Sources, subjects, and contents, 3^ème éd., Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008 [CDRE]

1. BEAUVALLET (dir.), Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la justice pénale internationale, Berger-Levrault, 2017 [CDRE]
2. BELLIVIER, I. FOUCHARD, M. EUDES, Droit des crimes internationaux, coll. Thémis, Presses universitaires de France, 2018 [BU Côte Basque]
3. FERNANDEZ, Droit international pénal, coll. Manuel, LGDJ Lextenso, 2^ème éd., 2022 [BU Côte Basque]
4. REBUT, Droit pénal international, coll. Précis, Dalloz, 4^ème éd., 2022 (spéc. Seconde partie) [BU Côte basque et en ligne]