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The legal foundation for criminalizing international crimes: a response to Kevin Jon Heller

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: This response will evaluate Heller��s argument. It will be argued that although the positivistic approach is more palatable to international lawyers of civil law sensibility and fits better with the demand that law should satisfy certain objective expectations such as the principle of legality, a purely positivistic approach as the basis for international criminalization is not convincing since it fails to explain or accommodate the various natural law influences in international criminal law.

Source: Human Science Research Council SA

DOI: 10.14749/32382210

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: International Law and Human Rights

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W7162207451

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