as a clever, cultured, and prolific writer on aesthetics, politics, and the history of philosophy... more as a clever, cultured, and prolific writer on aesthetics, politics, and the history of philosophy. He is also well known to readers of the letters columns in leading intellectual reviews as a distinguished conservative apologist with a penchant for baiting liberals. His treatise, Sexual Desire, continues his contribution in these areas. Scruton’s method is to present an account of the &dquo;intentionality&dquo; of sexual experience. There are, he says, two sorts of understanding: scientific, which attempts to explain the world, and intentional, which &dquo;is an attempt to understand the world in terms of the concepts through which we experience and act on it,&dquo; and &dquo;is concerned not to explain the world so much as to be ’at home’ in it, recognising the occasions for action, the objects of sympathy and
Since the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), ... more Since the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), international humanitarian law (IHL) has been the subject of a progressive, seemingly irreversible ‘criminalisation’. The Geneva Conventions of 1949, as well as Additional Protocol I of 1977 (AP I), only envisaged individual criminal responsibility for those ‘grave breaches’ expressly listed in the respective texts. Violations of IHL other than grave breaches were left to the responsibility of contracting states, which were merely required to ‘take measures’ necessary for their suppression. In 1993, however, the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY Statute) complemented the catalogue of ‘grave breaches’ with the category of ‘violations of the laws or customs of war’ as crimes giving rise to individual criminal responsibility in international law. The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), those of mixed tribunals and eventually the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have progressively encompassed more extended lists of crimes. At the same time, international criminal law (ICL) has emerged as a new and discrete branch of public international law, to include those rules the violation of which will give rise to individual criminal responsibility as well as regulating proceedings before international criminal courts. A considerable part of substantive ICL – that is, the rules indicating which acts are prohibited (actus reus) – originates in IHL. As a consequence, international jurisprudence has delved into the IHL rules, including those on the conduct of hostilities, thus contributing to their assessment and interpretation.
as a clever, cultured, and prolific writer on aesthetics, politics, and the history of philosophy... more as a clever, cultured, and prolific writer on aesthetics, politics, and the history of philosophy. He is also well known to readers of the letters columns in leading intellectual reviews as a distinguished conservative apologist with a penchant for baiting liberals. His treatise, Sexual Desire, continues his contribution in these areas. Scruton’s method is to present an account of the &dquo;intentionality&dquo; of sexual experience. There are, he says, two sorts of understanding: scientific, which attempts to explain the world, and intentional, which &dquo;is an attempt to understand the world in terms of the concepts through which we experience and act on it,&dquo; and &dquo;is concerned not to explain the world so much as to be ’at home’ in it, recognising the occasions for action, the objects of sympathy and
Since the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), ... more Since the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), international humanitarian law (IHL) has been the subject of a progressive, seemingly irreversible ‘criminalisation’. The Geneva Conventions of 1949, as well as Additional Protocol I of 1977 (AP I), only envisaged individual criminal responsibility for those ‘grave breaches’ expressly listed in the respective texts. Violations of IHL other than grave breaches were left to the responsibility of contracting states, which were merely required to ‘take measures’ necessary for their suppression. In 1993, however, the Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY Statute) complemented the catalogue of ‘grave breaches’ with the category of ‘violations of the laws or customs of war’ as crimes giving rise to individual criminal responsibility in international law. The Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), those of mixed tribunals and eventually the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have progressively encompassed more extended lists of crimes. At the same time, international criminal law (ICL) has emerged as a new and discrete branch of public international law, to include those rules the violation of which will give rise to individual criminal responsibility as well as regulating proceedings before international criminal courts. A considerable part of substantive ICL – that is, the rules indicating which acts are prohibited (actus reus) – originates in IHL. As a consequence, international jurisprudence has delved into the IHL rules, including those on the conduct of hostilities, thus contributing to their assessment and interpretation.
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