The relationship between international crimes and sovereign immunities has bedevilled judicial practice and legal scholarship and created an apparently irreconcilable tension between the two notions. Part of the difficulty in addressing this tension derives from the approach to resolving it. This paper proposes a novel approach, viewing the relationship specifically from the perspective of international criminal law and looking at the three core functions of immunities in that context. The authors conclude that customary international law excludes immunities as defence or bar to jurisdiction for core international crimes regardless of the nature of the jurisdiction concerned, the position of the accused, or the capacity in which the accused acted. When interpreted within that framework, the ICC Statute provides for clear limitations to the role of immunities in ICC proceedings and avoids the pitfalls that have thus far marred the ICC ’s approach to the law of immunities.

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国家元首豁免权、国际犯罪与巴希尔总统访问南非

国际罪行与主权豁免之间的关系一直困扰着司法实践和法律学术，并在这两个概念之间造成了明显不可调和的紧张关系。解决这种紧张局势的部分困难源于解决它的方法。本文提出了一种新方法，从国际刑法的角度具体看待这种关系，并在此背景下审视豁免的三个核心功能。作者得出的结论是，习惯国际法排除豁免作为防御或阻止对核心国际犯罪的管辖权，而不管有关管辖权的性​​质、被告的地位或被告的行为能力如何。在该框架内解释时，