Full Description
This volume examines lessons learned in over two decades of ICC practice. It discusses macro issues, such as universality, selectivity, new technologies, complementarity, victims and challenges in the life cycle of cases, as well as ways to re-think the ICC regime in light of the Independent Expert Review, aggression against Ukraine, and novel global challenges.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1
Setting the Scene
1 The icc in Its Third Decade: Setting the Scene
Carsten Stahn
Part 2
The icc in Context: General Reflections
2 Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the International Criminal Court
Philippe Kirsch
3 Looking Back and Looking Forward: How to Expand the Global Reach of the icc?
Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
4 Trust Fund for Victims: Reparations: a Critical Aspect of Justice at the icc
Minerva Tavárez Mirabal
5 The International Criminal Court at 20: the Role of Civil Society
Elizabeth Stevenson
6 The icc at 20 from the Rome Statute's Entry into Force: Looking Backwards and Forward, or Learning from Mistakes and Building on Achievements
David Donat Cattin
Part 3
New Frontiers in Investigations and Prosecutions
7 Innovation and Technology in Building Modern Investigations and Prosecutions at the icc
Karim Khan
8 Collaboration between the Office of the Prosecutor and Third-Party Investigators
Rafael Braga da Silva
9 Intersectional Approaches to Investigating and Prosecuting International Crimes: Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes
Priya Gopalan
10 'No-Win Scenarios' in Situation and Case Selection: a Call for a Holistic Conversation
Darryl Robinson
Part 4
Revisiting Trials and Procedures
11 Judicial Control of Investigations: Some Synopsis of Past and Present Perspectives
Mohamed M. El Zeidy
12 The Inquisitorial/Adversarial Divide and Its Specific Context at the icc
Raul C. Pangalangan
13 Reflecting on the Rights of the Defense at the International Criminal Court: the Importance of Ensuring Fair Trials to Deliver Exemplary Justice
Jennifer Naouri and Dov Jacobs
14 Victim Participation at the icc—Putting the Concept in (Good) Practice
Philipp Ambach
Part 5
Cooperation and Complementarity
15 Behind the Scenes: the Essential Role of Cooperation in an Effective Trial
Peter Lewis
16 Crystallizing Complementarity: a New Gambit?
Priya Pillai
17 Making Space for Victims in the icc's Evolving Complementarity Regimes
Lorraine Smith-van Lin and Fiona McKay
18 National Implementation of the Rome Statute as a Critical Precondition for Complementarity and Cooperation
Olympia Bekou
Part 6
Confronting Institutional Challenges
19 The Gap: Gender and Geographical Imbalance at the icc, 20 Years On
Angela Mudukuti
20 Funding the icc for Its Third Decade
Stuart Ford
21 'Nor Is It Neutral': New Technologies and the International Criminal Court
Alexa Koenig and Lindsay Freeman
22 Is the International Criminal Court succeeding in Providing Justice to Victims?
Carla Ferstman
Part 7
Looking to the Future
23 The Evolving System of International Criminal Justice
Muriel Ubéda-Saillard
24 The International Criminal Court of the Future
Leila Nadya Sadat
25 Reflections on Ecocide as a Fifth Crime Under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
Phoebe Okowa and Olivia Flasch
26 Aggression against Ukraine: and an Object Lesson in icc's Contributions to International Justice
Chile Eboe-Osuji
27 One Regime to Rule Them All: Harmonizing the Conditions for the Exercise of Jurisdiction over Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
Astrid Reisinger Coracini
28 Re-imagining the icc in a Multipolar World
Carsten Stahn
Index
