The relation between the principle of legality in international criminal law and the international criminalisation of crimes against humanity in historical perspective

• Autor: Pacheco de Freitas, José Augusto
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/21270
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/agendainternacional/article/view/21270
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: International criminal law; principle of legality; nullum crimen sine lege; nulla poena sine lege; crimes against humanity; Nuremberg International Military Tribunal; International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court; human rights; Derecho penal internacional; principio de legalidad; crímenes de lesa humanidad; Tribunal Militar Internacional de Núremberg; Tribunal Penal Internacional para la ex-Yugoslavia; Tribunal Penal Internacional para Ruanda; el Estatuto de Roma de la Corte Penal Internacional; derechos humanos

This article reviews the processes of consolidation of the principle of legality and of the criminalisation of crimes against humanity in international criminal law from a historical perspective. It starts with the Nuremberg Tribunal of 1945 and then traces the development of these two processes side-by-side: the enshrinement of the principle of legality in a series of universal treaties protecting human rights between the 1960s and the 1980s and the criminalisation of crimes against humanity in the Statutes for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda and in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.