This data set records international decisions addressing aiding and abetting liability in international criminal law. These decisions were collected and analyzed in the course of producing the following article: Oona A. Hathaway, Alexandra Francis, Aaron Haviland, Srinath Reddy Kethireddy & Alyssa T. Yamamoto, Aiding and Abetting in International Criminal Law, 104 Cornell L. Rev. 1593 (2019).
The documents collected and analyzed by the authors include decisions from the International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (MICT).
Data Set
Each case set includes a permalink to the corresponding case overview page (Case Name) and the analyzed document (Document). The data table can be filtered using any combination of filter boxes or sorted by Decision Date, Tribunal, or Chamber. Additional information for each case set including elements, key facts, and key passages can be accessed by clicking on the corresponding Decision Information.
Files are intended for educational and non-commercial use only. Every effort has been made to give copyright credit where available. Please contact us with any questions or concerns. We also invite users of the database to notify us if they locate any cases that are not already included in the database. We will update the data set whenever we receive new materials.
Citation
We ask users of the data set to cite it as follows:
Oona A. Hathaway, Alexandra Francis, Aaron Haviland, Srinath Reddy Kethireddy & Alyssa T. Yamamoto, Aiding and Abetting in International Criminal Law Database, Lillian Goldman Law Library Documents Collection Center (2020), https://documents.law.yale.edu/aiding-and-abetting-cases.
Users may also wish to reference the article cited above, which describes these cases in greater detail.
Questions and Feedback
This data set is hosted by the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University School of Law. Questions about the data set may be emailed to Professor Oona Hathaway at oona.hathaway at yale.edu.