Power, Consent, and the Long Road to Justice in Ukraine
On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin, marking the first time it has indicted a sitting head of state from a permanent member of the UN Security Council (“UNSC”).[i] The warrant for the Russian president was one of the boldest moves in the Court’s history, however, it also reflects the core question of international criminal law (“ICL”): in a system that relies on state cooperation to turn warrants into arrests
