MODULE 2

TOPIC: WHAT IS INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW

Ø GRADED RECITATION

Ø OUTLINE
o Read: Module 2 – Practice Training Materials developed by the
International Criminal Law Services (Part of the War Crimes Justice
Project funded by the European Union) – file uploaded in FB group;
§ Introduction
§ What is Public International Law
§ What is International Criminal Law
§ Sources of International Criminal Law
• Overview of the five sources of International Criminal Law
o As compared to the sources of International Law (under
Art. 38, Statute of the International Court of Justice)
o Applicability to Philippine courts
- Sources of Philippine Criminal Law
- No common law crimes in the Philippines
- Treaties and laws of preferential applications
(under Article 2 of the Revised Penal Code)
o Applicability to ICC (under the Rome Statute)
- Rome Statute of the ICC – Read Article 21 (full
text uploaded in FB group)
- ICC case - Al Bashir (uploaded in FB) – no
need to print, read only paragraphs 44, 128-132

SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW:

1. Treaty Law
o Vienna Convention on the Law of the Treaties (full text
uploaded in FB group)
o Pimentel vs. Romulo, GR 158088, July 6, 2005;
o Bayan Muna vs. Romulo, GR 159618, Feb. 1, 2011
(TAKE NOTE OF ALL ISSUES);