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Universal Jurisdiction for International Core Crimes: Recent Developments in Belgium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2005

Tom Ongena  and
Ignace Van Daele
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Abstract

Belgian legislation gives the national criminal justice system far reaching competence to prosecute international core crimes. International and national judicial decisions as well as policy considerations may however dictate restrictions.

Keywords

crimes against humanitygenocideinternational immunitiesuniversal jurisdictionwar crimes
Type
CURRENT LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 2002 , pp. 687 - 701
Copyright
© 2002 Kluwer Law International

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Footnotes

This text was completed on 3 June 2002.