Gravity at the International Criminal Court
Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion
Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-888295-4 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-888295-4 (ISBN)
Gravity at the International Criminal Court: Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion analyses the International Criminal Court's application of the sufficient gravity criterion over the last two decades and poses a normative argument in favour of making this application more coherent.
The gravity of a crime or case features in various international and national legal frameworks for the investigation and prosecution of international crimes. At the International Criminal Court (ICC), 'sufficient gravity' is a requirement for the admissibility of a case specified in Article 17(1)(d) of the Rome Statute. The open-textured nature of the provision leaves the manner of its application and, ultimately, its purpose in the context of the Prosecutor's decisions whether to investigate and prosecute, open to discussion.
Set against the backdrop of ongoing debates on how to justify selective investigations and prosecutions at the Court, Gravity at the International Criminal Court: Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion addresses the question of how the gravity criterion is to be applied in the context of the Prosecutor's respective decisions whether to investigate and prosecute. It argues that the purpose of the gravity criterion in this context is the allocation of investigative and prosecutorial resources.
First, identifying appropriate indicators of gravity, the book contends that the application of Article 17(1)(d) requires a subjective assessment that involves the exercise of discretion. Second, by clarifying the respective roles of the Prosecutor and the Pre-Trial Chambers of the Court in the assessment of gravity in different contexts, it argues in favour of wide prosecutorial discretion in the making of this assessment compared with the limited powers of judicial oversight conferred on the Pre-Trial Chamber.
Timely and thorough, Gravity at the International Criminal Court proposes a more coherent and persuasive application of the criterion, contextualizing and comparing the ICC's approach in relation to other courts and bodies of law including international human rights law, international investment law, and international trade law.
The gravity of a crime or case features in various international and national legal frameworks for the investigation and prosecution of international crimes. At the International Criminal Court (ICC), 'sufficient gravity' is a requirement for the admissibility of a case specified in Article 17(1)(d) of the Rome Statute. The open-textured nature of the provision leaves the manner of its application and, ultimately, its purpose in the context of the Prosecutor's decisions whether to investigate and prosecute, open to discussion.
Set against the backdrop of ongoing debates on how to justify selective investigations and prosecutions at the Court, Gravity at the International Criminal Court: Admissibility and Prosecutorial Discretion addresses the question of how the gravity criterion is to be applied in the context of the Prosecutor's respective decisions whether to investigate and prosecute. It argues that the purpose of the gravity criterion in this context is the allocation of investigative and prosecutorial resources.
First, identifying appropriate indicators of gravity, the book contends that the application of Article 17(1)(d) requires a subjective assessment that involves the exercise of discretion. Second, by clarifying the respective roles of the Prosecutor and the Pre-Trial Chambers of the Court in the assessment of gravity in different contexts, it argues in favour of wide prosecutorial discretion in the making of this assessment compared with the limited powers of judicial oversight conferred on the Pre-Trial Chamber.
Timely and thorough, Gravity at the International Criminal Court proposes a more coherent and persuasive application of the criterion, contextualizing and comparing the ICC's approach in relation to other courts and bodies of law including international human rights law, international investment law, and international trade law.
Priya Urs is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at St John's College, University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in Law from University College London and a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge, where she was awarded the David Thompson Prize (Homerton College). She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 06.01.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Monographs in International Law |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 492 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-888295-5 / 0198882955 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-888295-4 / 9780198882954 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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