Introduction 1
1. The Morality of Extraterritorial Punishment 1
2. A Brief Overview 6
1. Rights, Individuals, and States 8
1. A Rights-Based Account 8
2. An Account of Moral Rights 10
2.1 The conceptual analysis of rights 11
2.2 The interest-will theories debate: identifying the right-holder 13
2.3 Assigning moral rights: identifying the relevant interest 15
2.4 Who can have rights: individual interests and the state 19
3. The Normative Challenges of an Account of Extraterritorial Punishment 19
2. An Interest-Based Justification for the Right to Punish 30
1. The Right to Punish 30
2. A Normative Justification for the Right to Punish 33
2.1 The justification for the state's power to punish 33
2.2 The justification for the liberty to punish an offender 49
3. Conclusion 53
3. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction over Municipal Crimes 55
1. The Existing Legal Framework 55
2. The Territorial Scope of the Power to Punish 56
3. The Nationality Principle 59
4. The Passive Personality Principle 67
5. The Protective Principle 70
6. Two Possible Objections 75
7. Conclusion 85
4. A Jurisdictional Theory of International Crimes 87
1. Stating the Problem 87
2. Piracy-Based Explanations and the History of International Crimes 90
3. International Offences as 'Crimes against Humanity' 93
4. A 'Jurisdictional' Theory of International Crimes 100
5. War Crimes and Extraterritorial Jurisdiction 104
6. Do We Need a Theory of International Crimes? 110
5. Extraterritorial Jurisdiction for International Crimes 114
1. Universal Criminal Jurisdiction 114
2. The Case for States Holding Universal Criminal Jurisdiction 115
2.1 An argument for individual states having universal jurisdiction over international crimes 117
2.2 Competing arguments for universal jurisdiction 122
3. The Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court 128
4. Objections to Universal Jurisdiction 134
4.1 Universal jurisdiction criminalizes political decision-making 134
4.2 Universal jurisdiction risks becoming a tool against political adversaries 135
4.3 Universal jurisdiction is just an expensive taste for elites 136
6. Legitimate Authority and Extraterritorial Punishment 140
1. The Argument for Authority and the Power to Punish 140
2. The Service Conception of Authority 142
3. The Service Conception and the Legitimate Authority of Criminal Courts 146
4. Authority as'Moral Standing' 153
5. Show Trials, 'Clean Hands', and the Problem of Victor's Justice 156
6. Trials in absentia and of Defendants Abducted Abroad 163
7. Conclusion 172
Bibliography 173
Index 185