Joseph H. Weiler & Antonio Cassese 
International Crimes of State [PDF ebook] 
A Critical Analysis of the ILC’s Draft Article 19 on State Responsibility

I-IV — Preface — Table of Contents — List of Contributors — Introduction — Part I. Crimes of State: The Legislative History — International Crimes of State. The Legislative History — Part II. Crimes of State: The Problems Revisited — The Concept of ‘International Crimes’ and its Place in Contemporary International Law — Obligations Erga Omnes, International Crimes and Jus Cogens: A Tentative Analysis of Three Related Concepts — International Crimes – A Specific Regime of International Responsibility of States and its Legal Consequences — Implications of the Institutionalization of International Crimes of States — Part III. Crimes of State: A General Discussion — Introduction to the Debate — General Discussion — Observations on ‘Crimes of States’ — Remarks on the Present Legal Regulation of Crimes of States — Some Comments on State Crimes and Lex Lata — Remarks on Some Classes of Crimes by States — State Crimes and Lex Lata — On Defining the Concept — Responsibility and State Crimes — The Concept of Crimes of States: Evolution, Operation and Codification — Remarks on Deficient Drafting of Article 19 — State Responsibility and the Concept of Crimes of States — Lex Lata: Is there already a Differentiated Regime of State Responsibility in the Geneva Conventions? — Critical Remarks on the Applicability of the Concept of Crimes of States to Humanitarian Law — The Continuity between certain Principles of Humanitarian Law and the Concept of Crimes of States — Obligations Erga Omnes and the International Community — Short Comments on the Concept of Crimes of States and Some Related Notions — Jus Cogens and Crimes of State — State Responsibility: Lex Ferenda and Crimes of State — Lex Lata or the Continuum of State Responsibility — Convergences and Divergencies on the Legal Consequences of International Crimes of States: With Whom Should Lie the Right of Response? — The Objectives of a New Regime and the Means for Accomplishment — Critical Observations on Crimes of State and the Notion of ‘International Community as a Whole’ — The Concept of ‘International Community as a Whole’: A Guarantee to the Notion of State Crimes — On the Reaction of the ‘International Community as a Whole’: A Perspective of Survival — Crimes of State, Ius Standi, and Third States — State Crimes Implementation Problems: Who Reacts? — The Need to Abolish the Concept of Punishment — Crimes of State: The Concept and Response — Legal Questions Relating to the Consequences of International Crimes — Some Short Remarks: Consequences and Terminology — Measures Available to Third States Reacting to Crimes of State — The Institutional Framework — Part IV. Crimes of State: General Overviews of the Debate — Problems and Issues Raised by Crimes of States: An Overview — The Need to Better Clarify the Concept of Crimes of States — Part V. Crimes of State: Part Two of the ILC Work on State Responsibility — International Crimes: Injury and Countermeasures. Comments on Part 2 of the ILC Work on State Responsibility — Part VI. Crimes of State: Conclusions — On Prophets and Judges. Some Personal Reflections on State Responsibility and Crimes of State. Concluding Remarks to the Florence Conference on State Responsibility — Part VII. Crimes of State: Bibliography — International Crimes of State. Bibliography 1946-1984 — Part VIII. Crimes of State: Annexes — I. Draft Articles on State Responsibility Adopted So Far by the International Law Commission — II. Draft Articles on State Responsibility Submitted by Special Rapporteur Riphagen