Some legal consequences for legislative omission of international crimes in Mexico

Abstract

The present article is a simple discussion on the legal consequences that can result in poor both the exercise of legislative power as a State court, by the lack of characterization of the crimes in the international and domestic legislation that are competition of the International Criminal Court (hereinafter ICC). In accordance with the current international regulations, the lack of criminality of the international crimes in national laws can be cause enough to activate the ICC’s jurisdiction to consider the sovereign State as unable to prosecute and punish those responsible for international crimes under the Rome Statute.