The Resolution of the Institute of International Law on the Immunities of Heads of State and Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9929181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hazel Fox (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 119-125 |
| Publication date | 2002-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International and Comparative Law Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5893 • E-ISSN: 1471-6895 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/iclq/51.1.119 |
| OpenAlex | W2061578693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A pressing issue of the day requiring authoritative resolution is whether public officials when in office carrying out their official functions may be prosecuted by the courts of other countries for alleged international crimes. Objection has been made, though not by the Danish Government, to a new ambassador appointed by the State of Israel, taking up his appointment as head of the Israeli diplomatic mission in Copenhagen, on the ground of his implication in war crimes. Recently, criminal proceedings were brought in the French courts against Colonel Ghadaffi as the serving Head of the State of Libya for complicity in acts of terrorism resulting in the destruction of a French civil aircraft and death of all its passengers. Writing critically of the Lords' decision in the Pinochet case, Henry Kissinger talks of the tyranny of judges replacing that of government, of prosecutorial discretion without accountability and warns that ‘historically the dictatorship of the virtuous has often led to inquisitions and witch hunts’
Complicity · Democracy · Dictatorship · Government (linguistics · International law · Political science · State (computer science · War crime · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Aviation · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2004 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |