World Cup football- more than just a beautiful game

This blog is part of a series on The International Justice Monitor about selected aspects of the ICC Independent Expert Review Final Report released on September 30, 2020. Six new International Criminal Court (ICC) judges were sworn in earlier this month. Yet again, this election cycle brought to the fore procedural and substantive deficiencies of the ICC’s nomination and […]

This blog is part of a series on the International Justice Monitor about selected aspects of the ICC Independent Expert Review Final Report released on September 30, 2020. The Presidency is a highly influential and powerful unit within the International Criminal Court (ICC). Consisting of a president and two vice presidents, this unit has the power to […]

On Friday 12 February, the next International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor, British candidate, Karim Khan QC, was elected. Unfortunately, the election process itself cast a shadow and raised concerns about the ICC’s  management oversight and legislative body- the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) and its leadership.  The ICC is the world’s only permanent court with […]

This blog is part of a series on the International Justice Monitor about selected aspects of the ICC Independent Expert Review Final Report released on September 30, 2020. The much-anticipated Independent Expert Review final report was released on September 30, 2020 and it is candid, detailed, and more thorough than expected given the limited amount of time the Experts […]

The search for the next International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor continues. Much has happened since the vacancy announcement was published on August 2, 2019 and there is still a long way to go. The Committee on the Election of the Prosecutor (CEP ), duly established by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) in 2019, […]

I sat down with Stephen Rapp, (formerly Chief of Prosecutions at the ICTR, Prosecutor at the SCSL, and US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice; now a Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide and Oxford University’s Blavatnik School) to talk about some of the burning issues in international criminal justice […]

At a time when the International Criminal Court is facing significant challenges, many are questioning the trajectory of the global international criminal justice project. However, universal jurisdiction presents refreshed avenues for justice, particularly in the case of the atrocities committed in Liberia during the civil war in 1989-2003. Last week, the Swiss Office of the […]

On 11 March the International Criminal Court judges elected, by majority vote, Nigerian Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji as president for a three-year term. He is the first African to hold the position. Could his election assuage African leaders who remain convinced that the ICC is an institution led by westerners’ hell bent on targeting Africans leaders? […]

The international criminal justice world is buzzing with activity, South Africa chose to make a spectacle of itself by reminding the world that it intends to leave the Rome Statute and ICC judges referred Jordan to the United Nations Security Council for failure to arrest President Bashir, a consequence that South Africa escaped despite being […]

There are great changes afoot on the international criminal justice landscape. Last week the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court announced its decision to request judicial authorisation for an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan. Given that this situation involves investigating the conduct of American troops, it could do wonders for […]