The law's responses to massacres seem to vacillate between two models: (i) the model of the ‘criminal law of the enemy' inspired by the national criminal law and rendered topical again by the attacks of September 11; (ii) the model of the ‘criminal law of inhumanity' symbolized by the paradigm...

Since 11 September 2001, a new paradigm has developed in criminal law. Parallel to the idea of the war on terror, a paradigm based around war on crime has emerged. Inevitably, however, a paradigm of war leads to abandoning scientific approaches based on a legal-moral vision (crime, guilt and...