The Past, Present and Future of the International Criminal Court

CONTENIDO

Table of contents

Foreword by the Series Editor
Preface by the Editors
Foreword by Piotr Hofmanski
Foreword by Mama Koité Doumbia

1. The International Criminal Court: Between Continuity and Renewal
By Viviane E. Dittrich

2. Attacked, Applauded, Threatened, Universalized. Or: A Wednesday at the International Criminal Court
By Alexander Heinze

PART I: STOCKTAKING: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING AHEAD

3. Is Power or Reason the Way to Peace?
By Benjamin B. Ferencz

4. Justice without Fear or Favour? The Uncertain Future of the International Criminal Court
By Leila Nadya Sadat

5. The Way Forward for the International Criminal Court and its Stakeholders: Focus Inward
By Christopher R.F. Hale

6. The Relevance of the Nuremberg Principles as a Source of Law for Decision Making of Subsequent International Criminal Judiciary
By Katarína Šmigová

PART II: CONTEXT AND CONSTRAINTS

SECTION A: PROSECUTORIAL POLICY AND PRACTICE

7. Prosecuting “The Most Responsible”: The Law and Politics of the Expectation and Strategy
By Fannie Lafontaine and Claire Magnoux

8. The Use of Non-Governmental Investigatory Bodies at the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: An Offer We Can(not) Refuse?
By André C. U. Nwadikwa-Jonathan and Nicholas E. Ortiz

SECTION B: JURISDICTION AND ADMISSIBILITY: NORMATIVE CONSIDERATIONS AND PROSECUTORIAL DISCRETION

9. General Assembly Referral to the International Criminal Court
By Fergal Gaynor

10. The Complementary Global Regimes Working for Peace and Justice and the Pursuit of Universal Jurisdiction
By Andrea Marrone

11. Complementarity and Due Process as a Question of Admissibility: From Fighting Impunity to Seeking Justice?
By Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León

12. The Dynamics of Complementarity and Preliminary Examinations 
By Adedeji Adekunle

SECTION C: VICTIMS AND WITNESSES

13. Trauma in the Witness Stand – Effective Evaluation of Trauma-Impacted Testimony at the International Criminal Court
By Ellie Smith

14. Five Categories of Victims and the Consequences on the International Criminal Court
By Christoph Safferling and Gurgen Petrossian

15. Judicial Protective Measures for Victims and Witnesses vis-à-vis External Actors at the International Criminal Court
By Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo

16. The Development of Witness Evidence Law at the International Criminal Court
By Hilde Farthofer

SECTION D: DEFENCE ISSUES: PROCEDURAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES

17. Length of Proceedings at the International Criminal Court: Context, Latest Developments, and Proposed Steps to Address the Issue
By Benjamin Gumpert and Yulia Nuzban

18. Founding an International Criminal Court Bar
By Philippe Currat and Brice van Erps

SECTION E: LEGITIMACY AND INDEPENDENCE

19. Cultivating the Court’s Legitimacy and the Use of Constructivism to Prepare for Head of State Aggression Prosecutions
By Cara Cunningham Warren

20. Defining Situations at the International Criminal Court
By Nicolai von Maltitz and Thomas Körner

21. Politics and the Institutional Integrity of the International Criminal Court
By Shannon Fyfe

PART III: ACHIEVEMENTS AND LEGACY: REFLECTIONS ON THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ROME STATUTE

22. Quo vadis, International Criminal Court? The European Union’s Role and Responsibility to Support the International Criminal Court in Good Times and in Bad Times
By Barbara Lochbihler

23. Russia and the International Criminal Court: From Uncertain Engagement to Positive Disengagement
By Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov

24. Speech by Foreign Minister Heiko Maas at the Nuremberg Forum 2018 Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of the Rome Statute
By Heiko Maas

25. Speech by Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda at the Nuremberg Forum 2018 Marking the Twentieth Anniversary of the Rome Statute
By Fatou Bensouda

26. The Twentieth Anniversary of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
By Bertram Schmitt

Index
TOAEP Team

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Edited by: Alexander Heinze and Viviane E. Dittrich