%0 Journal Article %T International crimes and the right to punish %J Ratio juris %D 2019 %A Müller, Luise K. %V 32 %N 3 %P 301-319 %X What can international courts say when criminals ask, by what right do you try me? Some authors attempt to draw a connection between humanity's responsibility to call offenders to account and the harm humanity has suffered as a consequence of the offender's crimes. Others have argued that there need not be a special connection between those calling to account and the offenders, as the right to punish offenders is a general right each and every person has. Both lines of argument are ultimately unconvincing. Instead, I argue for a modified version of the second position which proposes a democratically based theory of responsibility for punishment held by international criminal law institutions.

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%G en %I John Wiley and Sons %@ 0952-1917 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/raju.12253