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Between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2013 the Chambers of the International Criminal Court (icc) delivered several notable judgments and decisions. This comment highlights the most important developments in 2013 concerning pre-trial proceedings, trial proceedings, appeal proceedings, complementarity principle and other developments.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) formally came into being on 1 July 2002 after the required 60th ratification of the Rome Statute was deposited. The states parties were able to quickly proceed with the details of the court's operationalization -- a budget for court & a process for nominating judges. However, the establishment of the ICC continued to be controversial, with many states opposed to its creation & the US one of its strongest opponents. In 2002. ICC was made a political pawn between its proponents & opponents & the US took various steps to dilute the effectiveness of the court & shield its citizens from the court's jurisdiction. 1 Table. Adapted from the source document.

A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it. It also makes these issues accessible to non-lawyers and presents effective advocacy strategies for non-governmental organizations. It also delivers essential background to the place of the US in international relations and makes a major contribution to thinking about the ICC's future. While global civil society does not deliver global democracy, it does contribute to more transparent, more deliberative and more ethical international decision-making which is ultimately preferable to a world of isolated sovereign states with no accountability outside their borders, or exclusive and secretive state-to-state diplomacy. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international law, globalization and global governance.

A new examination of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from a political science and international relations perspective. It describes the main features of the court and discusses the political negotiations and the on-going clashes between those states who oppose the court, particularly the United States, and those who defend it. It also makes these issues accessible to non-lawyers and presents effective advocacy strategies for non-governmental organizations. It also delivers essential background to the place of the US in international relations and makes a major contribution to thinking about the ICC's future. While global civil society does not deliver global democracy, it does contribute to more transparent, more deliberative and more ethical international decision-making which is ultimately preferable to a world of isolated sovereign states with no accountability outside their borders, or exclusive and secretive state-to-state diplomacy. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international law, globalization and global governance.

"Der inter­nationale Straf­gerichtshof (IStGH) wurde 2002 als permanentes inter­nationales Gericht zur Ahndung von Kriegsverbrechen, Genozid und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit geschaffen. Als Friedens­projekt ins Leben gerufen, gilt er als Durchbruch bei der Bekämpfung von Gräuel­taten und als ein Höhepunkt der inter­nationalen Recht­setzung. 2016 haben drei afrikanische Mitglieds­staaten ihren Austritt aus dem IStGH erklärt und damit seine Legitimitäts­krise offensichtlich gemacht, die schon länger schwelt. Auf die Austritte könnten weitere Rückschläge für die internationale Straf­verfolgung folgen. Der Autor untersucht im vorliegenden Report, wie sich die Beziehung zwischen Afrikanischer Union und dem IStGH wandelte: von starker Unter­stützung über vehemente Kritik bis hin zu Ablehnung. Er erklärt die Entwicklung, analysiert die Kritik und unterbreitet Handlungs­empfehlungen zur Auflösung der Krise." (Autorenreferat)

The United Nations General Assembly on December 9, 1948, adopted a resolution reciting that "in the course of development of the international community, there will be an increasing need of an international judicial organ for the trial of certain crimes under international law," and therefore inviting the International Law Commission to study the desirability and possibility of establishing such a judicial organ, in particular as "a Criminal Chamber of the International Court of Justice." Further, in approving the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948, the General Assembly endorsed a principle of the greatest import for the codification of international criminal law: that of nullum crimen sine lege, nulla poena sine lege.

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