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