International Criminal Law

International criminal law sits at the uncomfortable intersection of public international law and domestic criminal doctrine, asking when and how individuals (not states) can be held personally accountable for atrocities like genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. You'll work through the historical arc from Nuremberg and Tokyo to the ICTY/ICTR and the Rome Statute, picking apart the elements of each core crime, modes of liability, defenses, and the perennial headache of immunities and state cooperation, before putting it all to use in a semester-ending role-play exercise simulating an actual tribunal. It pairs naturally with public international law and general criminal law, and matters because this is the legal architecture invoked every time the world tries (and often struggles) to prosecute mass atrocity.