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The statute of the newly established international criminal court provides for command responsibility; the vicarious liability of civilian and military officials for the internationally proscribed conduct of their subordinates. The interpretation of this provision requires an understanding of the doctrine's complex and convoluted evolution. The Geneva Protocol of 1977 created a measure of uniformity. The Geneva Protocol, along with the Delalić decision of the trial chamber of the Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, likely will inform the interpretation of command responsibility under the statute of the International Criminal Court.

10 December, 1978 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations. Anticipating this anniversary the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly joined in recommending that a general review of existing United Nations approaches to the promotion and observance of human rights be undertaken.

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The Evolution and Scope of Command Responsibility

Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility. By Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. 382p. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Human Rights Revisited: The protection of human rights under the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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The Evolution and Scope of Command Responsibility

Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Responsibility. By Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. 382p. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.

Human Rights Revisited: The protection of human rights under the international Covenant on Civil and Political Rights