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CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW. STUDY ON THE EMERGENCE OF A LEGAL ORDER
2009
According to a prevailing view, the law of international criminal jurisdictions constitutes a branch of public international law. However, despite a strong institutional anchoring to public international law, this area of law, which is referred to as international criminal law for the purposes of this study, seems to go beyond the framework of public international law. Unprecedented solutions are being developed by international criminal courts to deal with situations referred to them. The international criminal judge plays a key role in this mechanism of overcoming public international law. The emergence of mass terrorism coupled with the trivialization of internal armed conflicts undermin…