The ICC's Jurisdictional Tightrope and the Limits of Accountability in Myanmar
Since 2016, more than 700,000 Rohingya have been forcibly displaced from Myanmar into neighbouring Bangladesh following a coordinated campaign of violence by the armed forces of Myanmar, the Tatmadaw.[i] The situation therefore poses a central challenge for international criminal law: how far can the International Criminal Court stretch jurisdiction in pursuit of justice when state consent is absent and enforcement is elusive?
To Bring the World to Account – Part Two
In September 2023, the Transnational Criminal Law Review published a journal symposium discussing the possibility of a judicial body targeting transnational corruption: the International Anti-Corruption Court (the “IACC”). This blog entry is the second part of a miniseries covering this Symposium, with this part providing a comprehensive summary of the Symposium's findings on topic 3 as well as discussing any potential issues that were not addressed or warrant more investigat
The Search for Truth: Will the Call for Justice be Answered at the ICC?
Following the discovery of 215 unmarked graves of children’s remains at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, a coalition of fifteen lawyers (the complainants) in Canada formally submitted a claim to the International Criminal Court (ICC) requesting that those responsible be investigated and prosecuted for crimes against humanity. The Rome Statute provides that the ICC has jurisdiction over crimes of the most severe nature concerning the entire international communit
The Dominic Ongwen Trial at the International Criminal Court by Dr. Kjell Anderson
The International Criminal Court (ICC) recently delivered its verdict in the Dominic Ongwen trial. The trial received quite a bit of attent
