Status of Forces: Criminal Jurisdiction over Military Personnel Abroad

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Law, International, Criminal law
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Author: Joop Voetelink ISBN: 9789462650572
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press Publication: April 16, 2015
Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press Language: English
Author: Joop Voetelink
ISBN: 9789462650572
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press
Publication: April 16, 2015
Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press
Language: English

This book brings into focus the legal status of armed forced on foreign territory within, inter alia, the context of multi-national exercises and a variety of so-called crisis management operations. When it comes to criminal offences committed by military personnel while abroad it is important to know whether such offences fall under the criminal jurisdiction of the Sending State or that of the Host State. The book analyses this question from two different perspectives, namely  traditional public international law and military operational law.

Taking his readership through two hundred years of international practice the author arrives at the current practice of laying down the status of forces deployed abroad in so-called Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs). Having looked at SOFAs from the two different law perspectives the author proposes the development of a “Status of  Forces Compendium”  to serve as a kind of guideline for future SOFAs. The author’s intention in proposing this idea is to instigate further discussion on the subject in public international law and criminal law circles and among armed forces’ legal advisors.

 

Joop Voetelink is an Associate Professor of Military Law at the Netherlands Defence Academy.

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This book brings into focus the legal status of armed forced on foreign territory within, inter alia, the context of multi-national exercises and a variety of so-called crisis management operations. When it comes to criminal offences committed by military personnel while abroad it is important to know whether such offences fall under the criminal jurisdiction of the Sending State or that of the Host State. The book analyses this question from two different perspectives, namely  traditional public international law and military operational law.

Taking his readership through two hundred years of international practice the author arrives at the current practice of laying down the status of forces deployed abroad in so-called Status of Forces Agreements (SOFAs). Having looked at SOFAs from the two different law perspectives the author proposes the development of a “Status of  Forces Compendium”  to serve as a kind of guideline for future SOFAs. The author’s intention in proposing this idea is to instigate further discussion on the subject in public international law and criminal law circles and among armed forces’ legal advisors.

 

Joop Voetelink is an Associate Professor of Military Law at the Netherlands Defence Academy.

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