POLS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Muammar Gaddafi, Eric Posner
25 Sep 2018
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Eric posner, the absurd international criminal court, wall street journal-5/10/12. International criminal court opened on july 1st, 2002. A treaty created this & it had jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity, and other offences in the world committed by anyone against anyone. The court was a fail even with its 700 staff and annual budget of. The icc had only completed one trial precisely and that had taken 3 years. The courts ability to operate runs on the consent of states. 121 states have agreed to the treaty which sounds like a lot but is quite deceiving. The 121 includes some authoritarian countries that employ repression or conduct military operations. Most of them are democracies that have some semblance of what the rule of law is. Icc only gains jurisdiction over a defendant if only domestic legal institutions fail to investigate internal crimes in good faith, therefore most member countries are likely to be subject to its jurisdiction.
