Antonio Cassese

This book collects together the most important papers of Antonio Cassese, the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry into the crimes committed in Darfur. Written over a period of 25 years, from 1974 to 2001, the papers chart the development of Cassese's thought on the central issues that have shaped his life's work: the laws relating to armed conflict, respect of individual rights and the prosecution of individuals for international crimes. Emerging from the papers is Cassese's vision of the individual and human dignity as the lynchpin of the international legal system, and the need to balance the fact of statehood as an essential feature of modern international society with the protection of individual rights. In a new paper, written especially for the collection, Cassese looks back over the development of his understanding of international law and presents his current view of the issues discussed throughout the volume. The volume also features an exhaustive bibliography of Cassese's publications, and biographical notes from Cassese's colleagues. By gathering together the most important writings of one of the preeminent figures in contemporary international criminal justice, this collection provides not only the definitive statement of Cassese's thought, but a unique insight into some of the key developments in international law over the last quarter of the twentieth century.

La mirada en torno a los derechos humanos que propone Antonio Cassese en Voces contra la barbarie se construye a partir de textos de diferentes ámbitos—antropología, historia, política, derecho, lite

Aunque La doctrina de La empresa criminal común ha sido abiertamente defendida por la jurisprudencia penal internacional, no ha quedado totalmente exenta de críticas. En particular, es controvertida la "tercera categoria" de la empresa criminal comun, consistente en La atribucion de responsabilidad con base en la previsibilidad y La asuncion voluntaria del riesgo de que se cometa un delito ajeno al plan o empresa comun. Antonio Cassese considera que, aunque la mayoria de criticas no son acertadas, al menos dos son pertinentes: (i) que La Sala de Apelaciones del Tribunal Penal Internacional para La ex Yugoslavia en Tadie (1999) erro al emplear indiscriminadamente terminologia tipica tanto de la tradicion del civillaw como del common law, y (ii) que el estandar de previsibilidad, algo ambiguo como elemento de la culpabilidad y causacion en el derecho penal, requiere cierta precision. En terminos generales, el concepto de empresa criminal comun debe restringirse. Por ejemplo, en Kvoeka, la Sala de Primera Instancia del Tribunal Penal Internacional para La ex Yugoslavia acerto al indicar que La contribucion de un individuo a un plan criminal comun debe ser "sustancial" (sin embargo, la Sala de Apelaciones discrepo en cierta medida). Asimismo, respecto a la tercera categoria de empresa criminal comun, Cassese, tras sentar las bases sociales y juridicas del criterio de previsibilidad y los motivos subyacentes a su aceptacion en derecho penal internacional, sugiere distintas vias para restringirla. Una de ellas podria consistir.

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