Political Science 2231E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: International Criminal Court, Philippe Kirsch, Rome Statute Of The International Criminal Court

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2231E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

In 1872, gustav moynier- one of the founds of the internaional commitee of the red cross- proposed a coutrt for crimes of the franco-prussian war. 1919 treary of versailles envisaged an internaional coutry to try the kaiser and german war criminals of ww1. Post- ww2- nuremberg and tokyo tribunals to try axis crimes. 1948- genocide convenion called for criminals to be tried by such internaional penal tribunals as may have jurisdicion". Internaional law commission (ilc) drated a statue to create an internaional tribunal in the early 1950"s, but this was abandoned during the cold war. 1989: trinidad and tobago called for a creaion of an icc; un general assembly asked that the ilc resume its work on drating a statute. 1993: internaional criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia. Keys areas of contenion in the icc negoiaions. How would the rome statute balance state sovereignty and a state"s obligaions to the.