Der Gesamttatbestand des Verbrechens gegen die Menschlichkeit: Herleitungen, Ausprägungen, Entwicklungen

The legal provisions of crimes against humanity have left a considerable mark in the field of international criminal law. Due to its legal history, which is mainly grounded on customary international law, as well as its multiple modifications over the years, the problem of dogmatic interpretation has nevertheless remained to be a big issue. The present study sees itself as a comprehensive analysis of the legal elements of the 'crime against humanity', which intents to display critical positions and chances for development, rather than simply reproducing the current status quo. The author inter alia discusses the dogmatic differences between the overall corpus delicti of the crime (»Gesamttatbestand«), its overall context (»Gesamtkontext«) and the respective catalogue crime (»Einzeltatbestand«). Efforts were made to establish that the provision »multiple commission of acts« as stipulated in the chapeau elements of Article 7 ICC Statute does not hinder a conviction for a singular commission, if done via a so called »ad hoc macro-criminal perpetration«. The author has also put a priority on analysing the respective catalogue crimes – particularly gender crimes –, and has included concrete suggestions of how the crime of forced marriage may be defined. As for the crime of apartheid, the dogmatic problem of mixed macro-criminal levels within the catalogue crime has been discussed for the first time. From this finding, the author comes to concrete suggestions of how this crime could be legally interpreted.