The Crime Against Humanity and its Eventual Reconfiguration

Abstract

This paper aims to specify whether international law can achieve a technical notion of “humanity”, or if it will always remain open to interpretation and disposition by States and other actors in international relations. While the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and other legal instruments have constrained the definition of the crime against humanity, the behaviors indicated in these instruments, which are numerous, must always be related to the criterion of humanity. In short, this work approaches some new visions regarding the crime against humanity and its configuration in the Rome Statute.