Guido Acquaviva, Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Assistant: Tom Gal
Course Description
Over the past two decades, the proliferation of international criminal tribunals has increasingly attracted the attention of international lawyers and practitioners. These international tribunals play a crucial role not just for their primary function of pronouncing on the criminal liability of individuals for serious crimes, but also in the development of a sort of ‘international criminal procedure’ and, more specifically, in placing themselves as interlocutors of states and other international actors. This course is devoted to a practical perspective on international criminal procedure in the fields of immunities, primacy vs. complementarity, tribunals’ requests for assistance (including binding orders and subpoenas), as well as protection of witnesses.
