States' Responses to Issues Arising from the ICC Statute

States' Responses to Issues Arising from the ICC Statute
Author: Roy S. K. Lee
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"Of the fifteen chapters, thirteen address issues of implementation of the Rome Statute in Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden, UK, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Lichtenstein, Japan, and Mexico [in legislation either adopted or pending]. ... Chapter 15 offers some critical remarks from ... China, which has not signed the treaty"--Foreword, p. xviii.

States' Responses to Issues Arising from the ICC Statute

States' Responses to Issues Arising from the ICC Statute
Author: Thomas H.C. Lee
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 900447983X

This comparative study focuses on the legislative methods and techniques used in 12 countries to give effect to the International Criminal Court. The text covers both common law as well as civil law countries: Argentina; Brazil; South Africa; The Netherlands; Liechtenstein; France; Sweden; Germany; Norway; Italy; Canada; and the UK. The practice of each state forms a chapter focusing on constitutional, sovereign, and criminal issues. Two additional chapters discuss such issues now facing Japan and Mexico. The contributors focus on real issues encountered and methods and techniques actually employed with the purpose of serving as a practical guide to those countries that are still looking for methods to give effect to the Rome Statute. In each case the authors explain why certain legislative approaches were used and why others were not selected. The authors are all experts with years’ of experience in the field; most of them participated in preparing the relevant domestic laws and in the making of the Rome Statute. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

States of Justice

States of Justice
Author: Oumar Ba
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2020-07-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108806082

This book theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests. Ultimately, it contends that African states have managed to instrumentally and strategically use the international justice system to their advantage, a theoretical framework that challenges the “justice cascade” argument. The empirical work of this study focuses on four major themes around the intersection of power, states' interests, and the global governance of atrocity crimes: firstly, the strategic use of self-referrals to the ICC; secondly, complementarity between national and the international justice system; thirdly, the limits of state cooperation with international courts; and finally the use of international courts in domestic political conflicts. This book is valuable to students, scholars, and researchers who are interested in international relations, international criminal justice, peace and conflict studies, human rights, and African politics.

Making Aggression a Crime Under Domestic Law

Making Aggression a Crime Under Domestic Law
Author: Annegret Hartig
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2023-03-13
Genre: Law
ISBN: 946265591X

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal questions that arise for the legislative branch when implementing the crime of aggression into domestic law. Despite being the “supreme international crime” that gave birth to international criminal law in Nuremberg, its ICC Statute definition has been incorporated into domestic law by fewer than 20 States. The crime of aggression was also omitted in the rich debate held among German scholars in the early 2000s regarding the legislative implementation of other ICC Statute crimes. The current inability of the International Criminal Court to respond to the Russian aggression towards Ukraine invites the continuation of these academic debates without neglecting the particularities of the crime of aggression. The fundamental issues discussed in this volume include the obligation to criminalize aggression, the core wrong of the crime, the normative gaps under domestic law and the jurisdictional gaps under the ICC Statute. To facilitate the operationalization of domestic implementation, the book explores the technical options for incorporating the definition into domestic law, the geographical ambit of domestic jurisdiction—most notably universal jurisdiction—as well as legal challenges such as immunities. The book is aimed primarily at researchers and States with an interest in the domestic implementation of international criminal law but those already working in the field should also find much of interest contained within it. Dr. Annegret Hartig is Program Director of the Global Institute for the Prevention of Aggression and worked as a researcher at the University of Hamburg where she obtained her doctoral degree in international criminal law.

UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court

UN Security Council Referrals to the International Criminal Court
Author: Alexandre Skander Galand
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-11-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004342214

This book offers a unique critical analysis of the legal nature, effects and limits of UN Security Council referrals to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Alexandre Skander Galand provides, for the first time, a full picture of two competing understandings of the nature of the Security Council referrals to the ICC, and their respective normative interplay with legal barriers to the exercise of universal prescriptive and adjudicative jurisdiction. The book shows that the application of the Rome Statute through a Security Council referral is inherently limited by the UN Charter as well as the Rome Statute, and can conflict with other branches of international law, including international human rights law, the law on immunities and the law of treaties. Hence, it spells out a conception of the nature and effects of Security Council referrals that responds to these limits and, in turn, informs the reader on the nature of the ICC itself.

The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court

The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court
Author: Carsten Stahn
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 1441
Release: 2015
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0198705166

The International Criminal Court has significantly grown in importance and impact over the decade of its existence. This book assesses its impact, providing a comprehensive overview of its practice. It shows how the Court has contributed to major developments in international criminal law, and identifies the ways in which it is in need of reform.

The Crime of Aggression

The Crime of Aggression
Author: Claus Kreß
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2016-10-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108107494

The 2010 Kampala Amendments to the Rome Statute empowered the International Criminal Court to prosecute the 'supreme crime' under international law: the crime of aggression. This landmark commentary provides the first analysis of the history, theory, legal interpretation and future of the crime of aggression. As well as explaining the positions of the main actors in the negotiations, the authoritative team of leading scholars and practitioners set out exactly how countries have themselves criminalized illegal war-making in domestic law and practice. In light of the anticipated activation of the Court's jurisdiction over this crime in 2017, this work offers, over two volumes, a comprehensive legal analysis of how to understand the material and mental elements of the crime of aggression as defined at Kampala. Alongside The Travaux Préparatoires of the Crime of Aggression (Cambridge, 2011), this commentary provides the definitive resource for anyone concerned with the illegal use of force.