{"title":"Making the Wrong Enemies? The icc Prosecutor’s Dilemma When Targeting Powerful States at the Preliminary Examination Stage","authors":"I. Marchuk, Aloka Wanigasuriya","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121020208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Activation of icc Jurisdiction over the Crime of Aggression","authors":"Claus Kress","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114141578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Al-Bashir and the icc – Tag, Hide-and-Seek … or Rather Blind Man’s Bluff?","authors":"Ondřej Svaček","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134136446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rome Statute of the icc and the Recent Works of the International Law Commission","authors":"Pavel Šturma","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115280518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"International Criminal Court, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity","authors":"J. Mrázek","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126433768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contribution of the International Criminal Court to the Prosecution of Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes: between Promise and Practice","authors":"K. Uhlířová","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_007","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual and gender-based violence has been used as a tool of armed conflict for thousands of years as a way to ‘shame, terrorise, and humiliate the enemy.’ However, it was not until the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in the 1990s that sexual and gender-based crimes (SGBC) were prosecuted in the international arena. The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) also contributed its piece. This paper will focus on the developments in investigating and prosecuting SGBC at the International Criminal Court (ICC), in conjunction with assessing the normative and substantive impact of the previous international tribunals on the ICC. First, a brief discussion will be had on the expansion of SGBC from the previous tribunals to the Rome Statute. Second, based on an examination of the ICC’s efforts to prosecute SGBC, the paper will argue that the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the ICC under its first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, proved to be deeply inconsistent and failed to prosecute certain individuals for their commission of extensive SGBC. As a result, the ICC has so far produced a rather poor record in terms of SGBC prosecution. Yet, the paper will show that more recently, there have also been some positive developments and attempts to tackle the complexities of SGBC, starting with the Policy Paper on Sexual and Gender Based Crimes (Policy Paper) released in 2014 by the OTP under the Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda; followed by the condemnation of SGBC in the Bemba case in 2016 or the confirmation of SGBC charges, namely war crimes of rape and sexual slavery of child soldiers, in the Ntaganda case in 2017. The valuable lessons, which can be drawn from the examination of the ICC’s record in relation to SGBC, are equally applicable to the investigation and prosecution of other crimes within the ICC’s jurisdiction.","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124271181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Element (Mens Rea) of the Crime of Aggression and Related Issues","authors":"M. Lipovský","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132485490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All Roads Lead to Rome – Lifting the Veil on the icc’s Procedural Pluriformity","authors":"Simon de Smet","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_013","url":null,"abstract":"Fifteen years after the entry into force of the Rome Statute, the icc still does not have a clearly defined procedural model for how to conduct its trials. In practice, different trials are conducted in a significantly different manner. On one view, this is a natural and unproblematic result of the fact that the icc’s procedural rules were deliberately drafted in an open-ended manner. On another view, the Court’s inability to adopt one specific approach is evidence of the fact that the deep conceptual divisions that prevented the diplomats in Rome from agreeing on a set of clear and precise procedural rules are still simmering – only now at the level of the judges. Whatever the case may be, the fact is that the accused before the icc do not all get the same procedural treatment. The paper aims to illustrate the icc’s current state of procedural pluriformity on the basis of two concrete examples. In particular, the paper discusses how different trial chambers have adopted dissimilar approaches towards the admission of evidence in general and the admission of prior recorded testimony in particular. These different approaches betray substantial disagreements on how to interpret and apply the principles of free proof and the principle of orality. At a structural level, the differences illustrate divergent conceptions about the burden of proof and the role of different players in the proceedings.","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131129606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The System of Operation of International Criminal Justice Fora, in Particular of the International Criminal Court – Will the Future Be Governed by Politics, Orders or Law?","authors":"Tamás Lattmann","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130574122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ad Hoc Tribunals and Their Significance for Developing the Activities of the icc","authors":"A. Richterová","doi":"10.1163/9789004387553_002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004387553_002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380094,"journal":{"name":"The Rome Statute of the ICC at Its Twentieth Anniversary","volume":"377 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122857166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}