Author(s): Saed Zayed Mohammad Al-Hawari
This study deals with a very crucial subject i.e. the role of International conventions in the internal legal systems specifically in the domain of crimes and penalties. Accordingly, the researcher addresses the issue of legal evaluation of International criminal conventions that bear legal obligations to the respective countries. These legal obligations compel the countries concerned to take certain legal measures for prosecution of an accused of such crimes. The main issue of the study is to concentrate on the possibility of implementation of International criminal conventions in the national legal systems, relagislating these conventions by the internal legislators. Otherwise, the role of these conventions will fail to have governance of these rules over the countries and will lead to a defective legitimacy. This study will be divided into two major parts - the first focusing on the definitions of the international criminal conventions and the second dealing with the legal methods of implementing the international criminal conventions in internal legal systems.