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Term: Oct. 2019 ～
The following 13 researchers are working at the Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University.
:Global Type
:Tenure-track Type
● Megumi OCHI Assistant Professor
Research Interests: International law, international criminal justice
Research Topic: The Specialty of Core Crimes: The Modern Significance of the Category of the Most Serious Crimes of Concern to the International Community as a Whole
Short Introduction
The large scale crimes such as genocide or crimes against humanity which interest international community as a whole are called core crimes and require international response regardless where the crime is committed. The attempt of international criminal justice, which was started as trials of war criminals, was designed to put emphasis on maintenance of international order and punishment of state leaders. However, in the 21st century, the focus of international community seems to have moved from inter-state wars to internal wars, and to terrorism and other types of violence in the recent years. I assumed that the foundation of the concept of core crimes that had aimed at ensuring peaceful coexistence of states has changed into a normative structure that aims at ensuring the safety of individuals and attempted to tackle this question from the procedural law’s perspectives. As the next step, this research attempts to reveal the specialty of core crimes in the modern age through verifying the hypothesis that the normative premise that constitute conceptions of crimes had been changed.
Introduction Research(PDF)
