id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
tahrj-4528	Ozdan, Selman	A Critique of the Demise of Heads of State Immunity in the Age of Human Rights	2018	20	.pdf	application/pdf	10360	350	42	The International Court of Justice examined the decision of the House of Lords in the Pinochet case but found that there was no applicable exception to the rule of Head of State immunity from criminal jurisdiction; moreover, it found that current Ministers of Foreign Affairs are particularly inviolable where they are suspected of having perpetrated violations of fundamental human rights. However, this authoritative principle of international law becomes contentious in cases involving the violation of human rights recognised as peremptory norms, most strongly represented by the growth of international human rights law and the establishment of international tribunals and courts determined to end impunity for violations of those human rights, irrespective of the perpetrators’ official position.1 Increasing concern for international human rights and greater international support for abolishing impunity for violators of those human rights have led the international community to question the boundaries of Head of State immunity.	cache/tahrj-4528.pdf	txt/tahrj-4528.txt