أحد محامي المحكمة الجنائية الدولية: لدينا سلطة لا حدود لها
عليك أن تقدر وقاحة محام في لاهاي يتصرف بجبن مطلق في مطالبه بعدم الكشف عن هويته حتى وهو يدعي سلطة غير محدودة لمنظمته. هنا، نقلًا عن The Quint، نجد ترس…
New Zealand: Cut Out the ICC to Give Middle East Peace A Chance
The ICC runs into the world’s largest powder house waving a torch. That is how Lawfare Tyranny described the International Criminal Court’s ill-advised and completely unwarranted entree into the most complex, thorniest…
ICC Lawyer: Our Reach Knows No Bounds
Lawfare Tyranny You have to appreciate the chutzpah of a Hague lawyer acting an utter coward in his demands for anonymity even as he claims essentially unlimited power for his…
On the Ever-Growing “ICC For Thee But Not For Me” Club
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The Russian state-funded media outlet Russia Today is hyping a recent interview in which journalist Neil Clark insists arresting former British Prime Minster Tony Blair on…
جنوب السودان والمحكمة الجنائية الدولية كمطرقة القوى العظمى المهدِّدة
في افتتاحيته القوية بواشنطن تايمز في نهاية هذا الأسبوع أعرب رئيس السودان الجنوبي، سلفاكير ميارديت، عن الابتهاج بتحقيق الاستقلال قبل خمس سنوات، والنضال من أجل بناء حكومة مُمثِّلة ومجتمع مدني…
Kid’s Makeshift Clock Apparently Reads “Time to Ignore the ICC”
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The International Criminal Court isn’t having a great year when it comes to enticing member or non-member states to take it seriously. First, Rome Statute signatory South…
South Sudan & The ICC As The Threatening Hammer of Great Powers
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny In a powerful Washington Times op-ed this weekend South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit writes of the jubilation of achieving independence five years ago, the struggle to build a representative…
The Great Unraveling Begins
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny South Africa will exit the International Criminal Court. For a primer on why, see our previous coverage: South Africa Refuses to Kiss the ICC Ring. Not So…
South Africa Refuses to Kiss the ICC Ring
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The International Criminal Court’s arbitrary deadline for South Africa to explain its decision not to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir during a June meeting of the…
أحكام المحكمة الجنائية الدولية المتزامنة في كينيا ليست من قبيل الصدفة
اليوم ترحب حرب الطغيان القانونية بإيفانز موناري، الذي يحظى بإحترام كبير من قِبَل كبار محامي التقاضي في كينيا، والذي “يمثل عملاء مختلفين في الاستجوابات والتحقيقات العامة. وقد ظهر أيضا للدفاع…
Simultaneous ICC Rulings in Kenya Case Not Coincidental
Evans Monari is a senior litigation attorney in Kenya who has, as noted in his official firm biography, “represented various clients in public inquiries and inquests. In 2011 he successfully led several…
With Friends Like These…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny So all this week the Guardian is celebrating “the United Nations’ vital agencies and associated bodies” and while our friends at the International Criminal Court managed to land the…
The International Criminal Court: Selective Justice For Select Victims
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Though she eventually — and, alas, more than a little predictably — trots out the unpersuasive argument that the multitudinous failures of the International Criminal Court can…
Yet More ICC Infighting
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Last week we noted International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s much-hailed rejection of a pre-trial chamber’s request that she reconsider her decision not to pursue a case against…
Standing Up for Israel at the ICC
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ) has submitted an amicus brief to the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court defending the decision…