Author: Emre Acar

[Emre Acar is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden Law School] In recent years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has faced a growing number of diverse and aggressive political attacks from both Non-States Parties and States Parties. As external threats, the Trump Administration has imposed unilateral sanctions on the Court’s officials (on 6 February, 5 June, 20 August and 18...

[Emre Acar is a PhD candidate at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies researching "The Role of International Judicial Governance Institutions in Respect of State Resistance to International Courts and Tribunals".] Applications for arrest warrants against Israeli officials in the Situation in Palestine have triggered political attacks from Israel and the United States against the International Criminal Court (ICC)....