{"id":10874,"date":"2025-12-19T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/?page_id=10874"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:33:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:33:52","slug":"10874-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/en\/pravni-zapisi-1-2025\/10874-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 309\u2013344<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>BEYOND GUILTY PLEAS: THE PROCEDURALIZATION OF NEGOTIATED JUSTICE IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS<\/b><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10868\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/03-Giovanni-Chiarini.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10868 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/pravni-zapisi-2025-02-thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Language: English<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><b>Giovanni Chiarini<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Vice-Dean of Research, Alfaisal University College of Law and International Relations, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><strong>e-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:gchiarini@alfaisal.edu\"><span class=\"s3\">gchiarini@alfaisal.edu<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><strong>ORCID ID:<\/strong> 0000-0001-6734-7269<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 309-344<br \/>\nOriginal Scientific Article<br \/>\n<b>DOI:<\/b> 10.5937\/pravzap16-62354<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>KEY WORDS<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">International Criminal Court, International Criminal Procedure, Nuremberg Trials, United Nations Tribunals, Guilty Pleas, International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Procedure<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Negotiated justice was first codified within the UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, where a consistent body of case law was developed. In contrast, plea-bargaining and guilty pleas were substantially denied in the earlier Nuremberg and Tokyo trials. The paper examines the theoretical and practical development of plea bargaining, tracing the proceduralization of negotiated justice in international criminal tribunals, which has ultimately resulted in the ICC\u2019s abbreviated proceedings on an admission of guilt \u2013 a hybrid model incorporating features from civil law and common law systems, representing a compromise of Anglo-Saxon and European legal traditions. The paper also shows that at the ICC, the use of plea bargaining has reached an impasse, primarily due to two factors: its extremely limited application \u2013 reflected in only a single case to date \u2013 and unclear norms regarding the accused\u2019s rights as well as the length of the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 309\u2013344 BEYOND GUILTY PLEAS: THE PROCEDURALIZATION OF NEGOTIATED JUSTICE IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS Giovanni Chiarini Vice-Dean of Research, Alfaisal University College of Law and International Relations, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia e-mail: gchiarini@alfaisal.edu ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6734-7269 Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 309-344 Original Scientific Article DOI: 10.5937\/pravzap16-62354 KEY WORDS International Criminal Court, International Criminal Procedure, Nuremberg Trials, United Nations Tribunals, Guilty Pleas, International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Procedure ABSTRACT Negotiated justice was first codified within the UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, where a consistent body of case law was developed. In contrast, plea-bargaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":10594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-article.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10874","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>- Pravni Zapisi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pravnizapisi.rs\/en\/pravni-zapisi-1-2025\/10874-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"- Pravni Zapisi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PRAVNI ZAPISI \u2022 Year XVI \u2022 no. 2 \u2022 pp. 309\u2013344 BEYOND GUILTY PLEAS: THE PROCEDURALIZATION OF NEGOTIATED JUSTICE IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS Giovanni Chiarini Vice-Dean of Research, Alfaisal University College of Law and International Relations, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia e-mail: gchiarini@alfaisal.edu ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6734-7269 Pravni zapisi, No. 2\/2025, pp. 309-344 Original Scientific Article DOI: 10.5937\/pravzap16-62354 KEY WORDS International Criminal Court, International Criminal Procedure, Nuremberg Trials, United Nations Tribunals, Guilty Pleas, International Criminal Law, Comparative Criminal Procedure ABSTRACT Negotiated justice was first codified within the UN Ad Hoc Tribunals, where a consistent body of case law was developed. 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