Causal Responsibility in International Criminal Law

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javid Gadirov
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 970-987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javid Gadirov

This article clarifies the factual basis for attributing causal responsibility in interpersonal causation scenarios in international criminal law. Such content is obliterated when explaining causal contributions in overdetermined and indeterministic harm scenarios. The resulting gap between individual agency and causal attribution is explained away by reference to values underlying legal liability (‘causal minimalism’). Probabilistic causal models can express causal influences in interpersonal causation scenarios, and explicate the objective basis of causal attribution. International Criminal Courts’ approaches to indirect and joint perpetration, as well as the notion of causal contribution in joint criminal enterprise are discussed in light of the existing approaches to testing causation in law, as well as with regard to Judea Pearl’s notion of causal sustenance. The article concludes that expressing causal contributions in language of probabilities can explain causal intuitions underlying legal liability better than supplanting factual basis of attributing responsibility with normative and policy justifications.


Author(s):  
Тамерлан Шайх-Магомедович Едреев

Развитие международного уголовного права происходит с учетом современных реалий, в которых противостояние государств зачастую приобретает формы войны в киберпространстве, при этом такого рода атаки имеют высокую опасность. В связи с этим в данной статье предпринята попытка определения кибервойны как нового вида преступления в международном уголовном праве. The development of international criminal law takes into account modern realities, in which the confrontation of states often takes the form of war in cyberspace, while such attacks are of high danger. In this regard, this article attempts to define cyber warfare as a new type of crime in international criminal law.


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