The Relationship between State and Individual Responsibility for the Annexation of Crimea
The Relationship between State and Individual Responsibility for the Annexation of Crimea

Author(s): Beatrice I. Bonafè
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, International Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Aggression; Crimea; state responsibility; individual criminal responsibility
Summary/Abstract: The facts characterising the March 2014 situation in Crimea offer an opportunity to test the legal relationship between state and individual responsibility under international law for a crime, the crime of aggression, which has seldom been the object of judicial assessment. The author takes account of a number of legal requirements necessary in assessing state and individual responsibility for aggression and maintains that, even with respect to the crime of aggression, state and individual responsibility remain separated at least as far as secondary rules are concerned.

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