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Gender And The Charles Taylor Case At The Special Court For Sierra Leone, Valerie Oosterveld
Gender And The Charles Taylor Case At The Special Court For Sierra Leone, Valerie Oosterveld
Law Publications
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Negotiating An Institution For The Twenty-First Century: Multilateral Diplomacy And The International Criminal Court, Valerie Oosterveld
Negotiating An Institution For The Twenty-First Century: Multilateral Diplomacy And The International Criminal Court, Valerie Oosterveld
Law Publications
The authors review the decades of discussion and years of negotiation that led to the adoption of the Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. By placing the creation of the International Criminal Court in its historical context, they emphasize the significance of the statute and the Court for international law. The lecture discusses various provisions of the statute, highlighting controversial aspects such as the jurisdiction of the Court and the crime of aggression. The statute reflects the compromises struck throughout the negotiations, compromises that are a necessary part of multilateral diplomacy. Though it was not possible to reconcile …