Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-2013
Keywords
International Criminal Court, ICC, International criminal law, Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Katanga and Ngudjolo Chui, control-theory, joint perpetration, indirect co-perpetration, hierarchy of blameworthiness
Disciplines
Criminal Law | International Law
Abstract
As the first cases before the ICC proceed to the Appeals Chamber, the judges ought to critically evaluate the merits and demerits of the control-theory of perpetratorship and its related doctrines. The request for a possible re-characterization of the form of responsibility in the case of Katanga and the recent acquittal of Ngudjolo can be taken as indications that the control-theory, is problematic as a theory of liability. The authors, in a spirit of constructive criticism, invite the ICC Appeals Chamber to take this unique opportunity to reconsider or improve the control-theory as developed by the Pre-Trial Chambers in the Lubanga and Katanga cases.
Recommended Citation
Ohlin, Jens David; Van Sliedregt, Elies; and Weigend, Thomas, "Assessing the Control-Theory" (2013). Cornell Law Faculty Publications. 1242.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/facpub/1242
Publication Citation
Jens D. Ohlin et al., "Assessing the Control-Theory", 26 Leiden Journal of International Law (2013)