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4 - The International Politics of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2020

Oumar Ba
Affiliation:
Morehouse College, Atlanta
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Chapter 4 describes the inherently political character of international justice and shows the working paradox between the UNSC and the ICC. The UNSC is the institution that allows the ICC to gain jurisdiction over states that have not ratified the Rome Statute, and this chapter asks whether international treaties such as the Rome Statute apply to states who are not signatories. The example of Libya is studied in detail to highlight the ways in which a non-ICC member chose to engage the Court by introducing an admissibility challenge and how the Court’s response to the challenge showed the inconsistency of its ruling, which also brings back the political dimension of international justice.

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States of Justice
The Politics of the International Criminal Court
, pp. 65 - 87
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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