The Territorial Applicability of Criminal Law in the UAE
Introduction
It may sound odd, but there is a difference between
international criminal law and criminal international law.
What's more is that the differentiation between these two
seemingly similar sounding things is of essential importance.
The international criminal law is a law which is laid down by
the international community through international conventions held
between several States. Therefore, it relates to international law
subjects rather than municipal law.
The criminal international law is the law which concerns the
rules of the crimes committed under the municipal criminal law,
involving a foreign element, such as the venue of the offense, or
the nationality of the victim or the offender. In such cases, the
criminal law comes into focus to deal with the problems of legal
jurisdiction and to solve the conflict of laws that may arise
between domestic and foreign criminal rules.
