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Court within legal circles. Unfortunately, the American Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) would have been the natural partner in this endeavor, had to reduce activities last year for lack of funds. Surveys of the American public are enlightening when it comes to the ICC and suggest that outreach from the OTP, Court personnel, and other surrogates will be well-received. For example, with the global market research enterprise Ipsos, the American Bar Association’s ICC Project has conducted surveys of the American people for several years now. Some highlights of...

connected with the ICC in terms of its technology provisions would seem to be a possible target of US sanctions. If you shut down key operating partners, you shut down, or at least significantly limit the courts’ use of AI particularly around digital evidence and investigations. To offer some context of the use, and ICC’s increasing engagement, with OTP Link submissions including of digital evidence. In a 12 month period (Oct 2023 – Oct 2024) the ICC’s OTP Link digital evidence platform received 74,803 submissions. These 74,803 submissions included a...

...the British mandate ended, and to occupy only that part of Palestine awarded to the Arabs which was contiguous with the frontier of Transjordan. See Sir John Bagot Glubb' "A Soldier With The Arabs", Harper, 1957, pages 63-66. Historian Eugene Rogan says that petitions, from nearly every town and village in Palestine, are preserved in “The Hashemite Documents: The Papers of Abdullah bin al-Husayn, volume V: Palestine 1948 (Amman 1995)”. See Chapter 5, Jordan and 1948, in “The war for Palestine: rewriting the history of 1948″, By Eugene L. Rogan,...

...with respect to the crime of aggression and accepts the ad hoc jurisdiction of the ICC retroactively with respect to the crime of aggression as of 17 July 2018. The ad hoc jurisdiction acceptance is a symbolic gesture, given that the ICC will not be able to try senior Russian leaders in light of Russia’s non-ratification of the RS and Kampala amendments (paras 1 (2) & 2). Cooperation The bill details the process of cooperation between the ICC and Ukrainian authorities. All ICC requests for cooperation should be communicated either...

Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has held several regional cooperation or technical cooperation seminars with the African Union Commission (AUC) and Non- Governmental organizations (NGOs). Examples of these seminars include the 2019 joint ICC and Institute for Security Studies (ISS) seminar on witness management in Africa. The OTP should continue organizing high level seminars on fostering cooperation with the ICC, joint African Union (AU)/ICC seminars, and retreats as a way of promoting dialogue and cooperation with the ICC and understanding the ICC’s Jurisdiction. The...

...Enjoy! Luis Moreno Ocampo, The Challenges for the Next ICC Prosecutor David Crane, The Chief Prosecutor: Diplomat, Politician, Leader, Manager, and Lawyer Liz Evenson, The Next ICC Prosecutor Should Resolutely Hold the Most Powerful to Account Christian De Vos and Mariana Pena, Electing the Next ICC Prosecutor: A Generational Opportunity, Stephen Lamony, The Next ICC Prosecutor Geoff Dancy, Evaluating the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Tom Dannenbaum, Against Modesty at the ICC Douglas Guilfoyle, How do we assess the performance of the ICC’s first Prosecutors? William Schabas, ICC Prosecutor Symposium: The Search...

be possible. Also, surely two years of active is sufficient time to say "justice delayed is justice denied." Milan Markovic I wonder if Ocampo is overstating the importance of the General Assembly's determination. Isn't the key question whether Palestine was a state when it filed its declaration under Article 12(3) of the ICC Statute in January 2009? If Palestine was not a state, then its declaration was invalid and the ICC would not have jurisdiction over any crimes committed on Palestinian territory. Moreover, if Palestine joins the ICC after it...

...Opinion of 5 February 2021, Annex I to the Decision of ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I on the Court’s territorial jurisdiction in Palestine). In fact, “Palestine” as an administrative and political entity was first created after the British occupation in 1918 and formally approved in 1922 by the Council of the League of Nations. Under Ottoman rule, there has been no administrative entity known as “Palestine”. Rather, the territory had been divided between the three sanjaks (districts) of Jerusalem, Nablus and Acre. As Shaw demonstrates, relying on Crawford, no mandated territory...

...the ICC under article 12(3) of the Rome Statute, for ‘acts committed on the territory of Palestine since July 1, 2002’. Three years later the ICC Prosecutor declined jurisdiction, citing a lack of clarity around the status of Palestinian statehood. In January 2015, the Government of the State of Palestine lodged another declaration accepting the jurisdiction of the ICC, this time over alleged crimes committed ‘in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem, since June 13, 2014’. It wasn’t until February 2021 that the Pre-Trial Chamber I had confirmed that...

you that the crime of aggression is important. However, Palestine's accession is of importance for being the 30th State Party which fulfilled the first condition of activating the ICC jurisdiction. Since the 2012 UNGA Res., Palestine has been accorded a new status enabling it to act as a State at the international level and acceded to a vast range of treaties without any single reservation and, as expected, only three States objected and presented the same argument. Whether you recognized Palestine as a State or not it is a matter...

questionable behavior as Chef de Cabinet. Fernández de Gurmendi’s relationship with the ICC began when she served as an Argentine diplomat for the negotiations that led to the 1998 creation of the Court in Rome. By currying favor with the United Kingdom and Canada, she was able to shepherd through Moreno-Ocampo’s successful candidacy as the ICC’s first prosecutor. According to Morten Bergsmo (here), who served as the OTP’s Senior Legal Adviser during the ICC’s early years, as well as ICL expert Christopher Mahoney (here), Fernández de Gurmendi persuaded Moreno-Ocampo that...

...Response to Recommendation 217, the ICC is trite. It notes that all ‘Chambers of the Court already carefully consider previous jurisprudence before reaching their own decisions’ (Response para 387). Recommendation 217 did however not revolve around the consideration of existing jurisprudence (Response paras 387, 389). Rather, it was about the ICC Chambers ‘departing from established practice or jurisprudence’ without providing sufficient reasoning as to why. Granted, the ICC may not have wanted to delve into the intricacies of the specific case referred to in the Report, the Bemba Judgment on...