Status of Forces: Criminal Jurisdiction over Military Personnel Abroad

• Main Author: Voetelink, Joop (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2015.
• Subjects: Law.; International criminal law.; International Criminal Law.

This book brings into focus the legal status of armed forces 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 kn...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Ground Rule
• Foreign Armed Forces on Allied Territory during Armed Conflict
• Armed Forces Participating in Crisis Management Operations
• Military Cooperation
• The Sovereign State and the Exercise of Jurisdiction
• Immunity
• The State, the Armed Forces and the Concept of Immunity
• International organisations
• Law of Visiting Forces as Part of Military Operational Law
• Terminology
• Analysis of the Frameworks for Foreign Presence from an International Operational Perspective
• Specific SOFA-Provisions
• Synthesis and Conclusion.