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13 Feb Enforcing an AI Moratorium: Lessons from the ICC?
...reasons. As already noted, it demonstrates a model for enforcing international obligations on non-state legal persons. As such, the principles that it has developed are highly relevant to AGI enforcement. The ICC’s fundamental principle of complementarity, for example, could be readily embedded in AGI regulation enforcement, thereby avoiding the need to construct a jurisdiction regime from scratch. Likewise, AI scholars ought to review the sophisticated (and relatively demanding) cooperation arrangements outlined in Part 9 of the Rome Statute. Contraventions of an AI moratorium are likely to involve complex cross-border elements,...
24 Jul About Humanness: Reconceptualizing the Taliban’s Treatment of Afghan Women as a Crime Against Humanity
...it seems that an integration of the Statute providing for universal jurisdiction is the closest to the spirit of the ICC and to the Principle of Complementarity (Article 1) on which the Court is based. Alternatively, serious human rights violations, typically triggering the responsibility of a state rather than individuals, may come under the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) or regional human rights courts. This jurisdiction can be established through the application of Universal Jurisdiction (UJ), by invoking the breach of erga omnes obligations. There has been...
24 Jul Introducing a Symposium on Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance: Critical Reflections
...and strengthens the principle of complementarity. There are legal gaps that this treaty fills, and it is important that we understand the context of these negotiations as well as the outcome. I was privileged to speak at the opening ceremony of the Diplomatic Conference on 15 May, and I highlighted the value of the MLA Treaty: firstly, as an additional tool in the toolbox to tackle impunity; second, its value towards greater international cooperation, globally as well as regionally; third, its relevance to Asia; and last, but not the least,...
08 Sep BHR Symposium: Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts—Exclusion of Corporate International Criminal Liability from the Second Draft Treaty
...separation of the responsibilities of natural and legal persons. Contrary to the French proposal (art 23(5) and (6)) to the Rome Statute that was never integrated, the introduction of this provision would contain several advantages. First, it leaves the States satisfied with retaining control over the criminal prosecution of natural persons in accordance with the principle of complementarity. It is worth noting that, to this day, only two corporate directors have ever been prosecuted for their involvement in international war crimes: Guus Kouwenhoven and Van Anraat. Furthermore, this formulation recognizes...
17 May Interview: Brigid Laffan on ‘Europe in the World: The Emergence of Collective Power Europe’
...course, the other thing that has emerged from the war, is that the EU can talk about strategic autonomy forever and ever — NATO is the security ‘gateman.’ And what we need to see is a strengthening of the European pillar in NATO, a complementarity between the EU and NATO, cooperation and not rivalry. But the idea of an independent European security strategy — I don’t buy it. Now, of course, that can change depending on who sits in the White House. Because, of course, the big question is the...02 Feb Is the U.S. Ready to Get Engaged with the ICC?
...jurisdiction under the complementarity regime; and • hearings to review and monitor Court performance in order to identify means by which the United States can support the Court consistent with the interests of the United States and the international community and to re-examine whether the U.S. should become a party to the Rome Statute with any appropriate understandings and declarations as other States Parties have done. The Task Force, chaired by Will Taft and Patricia Wald, includes an august group of former jurists, notably Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Schwebel,...
14 Jan Remedies in International Law: A Case of Inspiration
...the case forward in the name of their national. However, as the ILC’s 2006 commentaries Arts. 14 and 15 provide, the exhaustion of local remedies, and as such, individuals must go through national processes first, unless an exception applies (ie, domestic remedies are ineffective, inadequate, unavailable). Similar to the principle of complementarity in international criminal law, exhaustion of local remedies is meant to give deference to the place where the dispute arises, on the basis that it is often most efficient to resolve disputes where they occur, and this is...06 Nov Piecing the Withdrawal Puzzle: May the ICC still open an investigation in Burundi? (Part 2)
...Statute. These include duties vis-à-vis States Parties which, if it had not withdrawn, would have otherwise arisen for the State in question on account of the Court’s exercise of its complementary jurisdiction in respect of the crimes over which that State would normally exercise jurisdiction. The ‘legal situation’ in connection with the Court’s exercise of jurisdiction encompasses, among others, the State Party’s duties to submit oneself to the ICC’s scrutiny as part of the complementarity analysis and to its admissibility determinations, as well as the duty to accept any prospective...
03 Feb Venezuela, Narco-Trafficking Narratives, Crimes Against Humanity, and the Rome Statute: Keeping Accountability on Track
...2021; judges later authorized its resumption under Article 18(2), and the Appeals Chamber rejected Venezuela’s attempt to halt the probe – largely through a complementarity lens. Against that procedural backdrop, the public debate can either (i) track what the ICC is legally equipped to assess – Rome Statute elements and responsibility – or (ii) drift into a parallel universe where “narco” enforcement becomes a proxy for accountability. In practice, prosecutorial strategies may choose to foreground political persecution and repression dynamics, while treating corruption and illicit-economy evidence as supporting context rather...24 Jul Spanish UJ — From Pinochet to Purgatory?
...But the cost may be too great. The lack of safety valves and checks and balances in the Spanish system is problematic. As is the Spanish statute’s disregard for the principle of complementarity – there is no statutory mechanism in place to halt a case when territorial courts have in good faith launched their own investigation or initiated their own prosecution (although there is admittedly a Spanish Constitutional Court ruling to that effect, Spain’s seeming disregard of an Israeli investigation into the Gaza case gives pause). And nothing in the...