La responsabilità del superiore (command responsibility) in diritto penale internazionale : l'articolo 28 dello Statuto di Roma

The work is an in depth study of the command responsibility doctrine, pursuant to which military commanders and civilian leaders can be held responsible for the crimes committed by their subordinates that they failed to prevent of punish. particular attention is devoted to the jurisprudence of the ad hoc Tribunals, which extensively elaborated on the issue, and to the provision of Article 28 of the Statute of the International Criminal Court.