Lawfare Tyranny It had long been rumored that Namibian President Hage Geingob’s ultimately un-delivered speech to the African Union summit in South Africa last July included a stinging rebuke of…
What should an International Criminal Court member state do if it feels the Court is behaving in an unfair, politicized manner by, say, using recanted testimony in a continuation of an already bafflingly…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny A group of Kenyan victims of 2007 post-election violence have a message for the International Criminal Court that has been holding itself up as their savior…