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The article is devoted to the most important issues of morality and law, issues that make up public relations' value structure - justice and humanism. Justice and humanism as universally recognized virtues are ambiguously understood and interpreted in literature. Still, they are fundamental ideas that are the foundation of the harmonious existence of the human community. As the fundamental ideas of the virtues considered in the article are reflected in the modern Criminal Code of the Russian Federation as the principles of criminal law. What is the ontological essence of the principles established in the Criminal Code, what is the influence of ancient truths on the formation of the semantics of the "virtues of criminal law", what is the error of the legislator who formulated these principles - the essence of the article proposed to the reader.

AbstractWriting 62 years ago, Georg Schwarzenberger posited that international criminal law did not exist. As long as some States, those larger or more powerful, were held to a different standard, or, in fact, not held to account at all, it was premature to speak of such a thing. For Schwarzenberger, international criminal law was a misnomer withoutuniversalcriminal justice. This article considers whether that same criticism can be made of international criminal law today. Indeed, it asks whether this is a realistic expectation in the first place. The recently concluded Review Conference of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda is seen as an ideal juncture at which to do so. This article analyses what is meant by the term international criminal law and then selects two models; the International Criminal Court and the exercise of universal jurisdiction, to gauge the success, or failure, of international criminal law in satisfying Schwarzenberger's criterion.