Epilogue to an Endless Debate: The International Criminal Court's Third Party Jurisdiction and the Looming Revolution of International Law

Mégret, Frédéric

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“…Despite superficial similarities, the current international criminal law project arguably "has very little to do with Nuremberg." 205 In fact, the International Criminal Court's potential exercise of jurisdiction over the modern incarnation of Nuremberg's supreme crime of waging war-the crime of aggression-has itself engendered a great deal of debate and resistance. 206 Leading scholars have suggested that this crime, previously the paradigmatic offense of the Nuremberg Era, is a distraction from the Court's primary work of "ensur[ing] accountability for perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide."…”

Section: Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Connecting Internationalmentioning

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Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice

Liss

2019

Am. j. int. law

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The scope of international criminal jurisdiction poses a fundamental challenge for criminal law theory. Prevailing justifications for the state's authority to punish crime assume the existence of connections between the state and either the criminal or the crime that are not always present in the international criminal context. Recognizing this gap, this Article introduces a new theory of what distinguishes international crimes from domestic crimes and justifies the unusual scope of international criminal jurisdiction. As this Article explains, international crimes are unique in the way they undermine international society's structure as a system of sovereign states.

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Section: Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Connecting Internationalmentioning

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Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice

Liss

2019

Am. j. int. law

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“…The ICC has been hailed as "the most significant development in international criminal law since the existence of the discipline" (Schabas 2004: 25), a "significant building block in the construction of a truly international legal community" (Cassese 1999: 145), "the brightest star in the cosmopolitan firmament" (Simpson 2007: 39) and a "global civil society achievement" (Glasius 2007: i). For Mégret (2001) lasting respect for and the enforcement of international justice". 5 Such symbolic celebration of an anniversary was a first in the realm of the international tribunals.…”

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Legacies of the International Criminal Court under Construction

Dittrich¹

2013

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Der Gerichtshof wird mehr und mehr akzeptiert werden und weitere Staaten werden dem Römischen Statut beitreten.Auch wird der Gerichtshof bald in ein neues Gebäude umzie hen, das nicht nur die Effektivität des IStGH steigern wird, sondern auch für einen Zeitraum von 100 Jahren angelegt ist. Somit ist zu hoffen, dass der Gerichtshof nicht nur in 30 oder 50 Jahren, sondern auch in einem Jahrhundert noch darüber wachen können wird, dass Täter internationaler Kernverbre chen nicht straflos bleiben, sondern nach dem Römischen Statut verfolgt werden.Aber auch dann wird weiterhin eine fundamentale Realität, ein Mechanismus, wirksam sein, den die Richter des IStGH seit 2003 immer wieder erfahren mussten: Das System internationaler Strafgerichtsbarkeit nach dem Römischen Statut kann und wird nur so stark, effektiv und glaubwürdig sein, wie es die Vertrags staaten und die internationale Gemeinschaft selbst machen. dass der Strafgerichtshof noch 1996 eine bloße Utopie war, eine Art Traum, wenn man bedenkt, was seither erreicht wurde, dann wird deutlich: Unsere Arbeit ist keineswegs aussichtslos.Heute, im Jahr 2013, gibt es auch keine andere Alternative: Auch künftig muss alles getan werden, um schwerste inter nationale Verbrechen wie Völkermord, Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, massenhafte Kriegsverbrechen und das Ver brechen der Aggression möglichst wirksam zu verfolgen und zu bestrafen. Vorrangig und am besten geschieht dies durch nationale Strafrechtssysteme; wo diese versagen, hilfsweise durch den Internationalen Strafgerichtshof, der für diese so bedeutsame, schwierige Aufgabe weiter gestärkt werden muss.Der Gerichtshof hat in seiner kurzen Existenz eine enorme Entwicklung vollzogen, nicht nur personell, sondern auch institutionell. Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass sich diese immer weiter konsolidieren wird, sie erscheint irreversibel.

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“…International criminal law, for example, is not only supported by a cosmopolitan orientation. Despite the cosmopolitan celebrations of the ICC (Mégret 2001; Roach 2005), the institution remains embedded in a statist international system and consideration of the liberal internationalist line of thinking is necessary to fully understand the emerging practices of responsibility in international criminal law (Peskin 2009).…”

Section: The Good the Bad And The Incapable: Moral Agency In World mentioning

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Reconstructing responsibility and moral agency in world politics

Hoover

2012

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Assigning responsibility is increasingly common in world politics, from the United Nation's assertion that sovereignty entails a ‘responsibility to protect’ to the International Criminal Court's attempts to hold individuals responsible for international crimes. This development is welcome but problematic as the model of moral agency that our contemporary practices of responsibility are based on leads to a number of problematic consequences that impede efforts to make world politics more just. In particular, our contemporary practices of responsibility are excessively focused on the obligations of individual and collective actors, at the expense of enabling conditions, and on holding specific perpetrators accountable, neglecting the need for wider social transformations in response to mass violence and suffering. Alternative understandings of moral agency, which better serve international/global practices of responsibility, are possible and here I defend an understanding of moral agency based on the philosophy of John Dewey. The critical insights and practical possibilities of this alternative understanding of moral agency are explored with reference to international interventions in Sierra Leone and Uganda.

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Epilogue to an Endless Debate: The International Criminal Court's Third Party Jurisdiction and the Looming Revolution of International Law

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Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice

Crimes Against the Sovereign Order: Rethinking International Criminal Justice

Legacies of the International Criminal Court under Construction

Reconstructing responsibility and moral agency in world politics

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