Document Type
Essay
Publication Title
Emory Int'l L. Rev. Recent Dev.
Publication Date
Winter 1-1-2017
Abstract
The reported detention of a retired Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) officer by British authorities in late 2015 should reignite concerns among senior officials in Washington and elsewhere about the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The issue for U.S. and other policy makers is whether to denounce detention incidents like the one in Britain and insist that the ICC respect the foundational limits on its jurisdiction. At a minimum, the U.S. President should call on the ICC Chief Prosecutor to repudiate efforts to haul IDF veterans into the Court's chambers, and terminate her preliminary enquiry into IDF conduct during the Gaza War. Doing so would not only be in the interests of the United States and its allies, but in the interest of the ICC as well.
Volume
31
First Page
1001
Recommended Citation
Adam Oler,
The Looming Demise of the ICC's Complementarity Principle: Israel, U.S. Interests, and the Court's Future,
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Emory Int'l L. Rev. Recent Dev.
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(2017).
Available at:
https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr-recent-developments/11