By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Did you know the United States has an “Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues”? Yes, well, don’t feel too badly if you didn’t. It’s essentially the definition of…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Steven Freeland, a professor of international law at the University of Western Sydney, has studied the current track record of the International Criminal Court — i.e. thirteen…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Via the Kurdish media network Rudaw: Commemorating the Day of International Criminal Justice, Halabja civil society organizations, authorities, civil society activists and victims of chemical weapons renewed…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Though we’ve obviously been beating the drum for quite awhile in this space, opposition to the International Criminal Court is becoming a less and less…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Via the Irish Times: The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has refused to appear before the Kenyan High Court, despite being summonsed in a case aimed…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Surprise, surprise. Once again we are breathlessly being told that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will refer yet another batch of…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation has released a statement regarding the recent kerfuffle between the African National Congress, a South African judge, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and…
Is failure baked into the International Criminal Court cake? Even some of the Court’s staunchest supporters seem to believe the answer is a resounding Yes. Or so we are led to…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny As he awaits his fate at the hands of Dutch immigration authorities, Mathieu Ngudjolo — the first person acquitted of crimes against humanity charges by the…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Kenya recently settled its outstanding 2014 “contributions” to the International Criminal Court with a €26,110 ($28,542) payment, according to the Court’s Report of the Committee on Budget…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny We’ve noted previously the hammer-of-international-justice-for-thee-but-not-for-me phenomenon that seems to go hand in hand with pleas for International Criminal Court intervention, and this week has provided no exception…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Perhaps you’ve been concerned about the International Criminal Court because of the shamelessly selective enforcement of its purported mission. Or the rent-seeking tendencies hardwired into…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Over at The Washington Times today Center for Freedom and Prosperity President Andrew F. Quinlan presents the International Criminal Court as Exhibit A in his case for why, despite the fact that…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Over at the Daily Beast Andrew Novak lays out a persuasive list of reasons why Palestine is “unlikely to see results from an [International Criminal Court] prosecution for many years, if…
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Over in Australia “prominent barrister” Julian Burnside has come up with a plan to break, however briefly, the International Criminal Court’s monomaniacal fixation on Africans…by luring the the…