ENGLESKI KAO NADMOĆNI JEZIK U MEĐUNARODNOM KRIVIČNOM PRAVU
ENGLISH AS DOMINANT LANGUAGE IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

Summary/Abstract: There is no other answer to the question which language may be considered as the language of the international criminal law than the English language. It is dominant in all the bodies of the international criminal justice, and the majority of the written sources of this field of the law, although they are written and published in various languages, are used in the English original. By exploring the origins of such a status of the English language, the author easily found the cause to this in the political and economic power of the cultures that are traditionally shaping international relations, primarily Anglo-Saxon culture. If one establishes the connection between certain language and certain law it will necessarily lead him to the conclusion that language affects the spirit of the law, and even more than that. The characteristics of the certain law come with the language; in this case this is the law which belongs to the Anglo Saxon family of the law, characteristic to that language. The consequences that occurred due to the status of English language as a dominant in international criminal law are huge.

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