DEFENSES TO CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN MODERN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
The article analyses defenses to criminal liability in international criminal law. The author studies defenses as follows: defense, necessity, mistake, incapacity, intoxication. The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, International tribunal rulings on Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda are used as sources. The author states that The Rome Statute developed a system of defenses to liability of an individual for damage. Those defenses have different legal nature, but general tendency indicates that modern International tribunals impose percentage restrictions relating to international law regulations' interpretation (especially relating to regulations on defense, necessity, compulsion and order execution.