From Rome to The Hague: Recent Developments on Immunity Issues in the ICC Statute

Leiden Journal of International Law

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 485-493

  van Alebeek, Rosanne ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

immunity; International Criminal Court; international criminal law; United States

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920422040     PISSN: 09221565     EISSN: 14789698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0922156500000340     Document Type: Editorial

References (15)

1. states have signed the Statute while Senegal, Trinidad & Tobago, San Marino, Italy, Fiji, Ghana, Norway, Belize, Tajikistan, Iceland, Venezuela, France, Belgium, Canada, Mali, Botswana, Lesotho, Luxembourg and New Zealand have ratified it. 60 ratifications are needed for the Statute to enter into force. See http://www.iccnow.org (last access date 12 September 2000) for further information.
2. Other issues include the extradition of a state's own nationals and life imprisonment. 3, Nuremberg Judgment (IMT 1946), 41 AJIL 172, at22l (1947).
3. Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, annexed to Security Council Resolution 827 (1993); Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, annexed to Security Council Resolution 955 (1994). See also A. Watts, The Legal Position in International Law of Heads of State, Heads of Government and Foreign Ministers, 247 RdC 13, at 81-84 (1994-111).
4. Conseil Constitutionnel, 22 January 1999, No 98-408 DC.
5. Loi constitutionelle no 99-568, J.O. Numero 157, 9 July 1999, 10175.
6. See url Loi constitutionelle no 99-568 note I.
7. M. Zwanenburg, The Statute for an International Criminal Court and the United States: Peace Without Justice?, 12 LJIL 1, at 6 (1999).
8. See for an overview of the most important arguments R. Wedgwood, The International Criminal Court: An American View, 10 EJIL 93-107 (1999) and G. Hather et al., A Response to the American yiewas Presented by Ruth Wedgwood, 10 EJIL 108-123 (1999).
9. UN Doc. A/CONF.183/C.1/L.90 (1998).
10. Financial Times, 31 July 1998.
11. See url Financial Times note 1, Documents Section.
12. Id.
13. Unless the Security Council authoritizes measures pursuant to Chapter VII UN Charter, This exception would of course not affect the permanent members.
14. D.J. Scheffer, The United States and the International Criminal Court, 93 AJIL 12, at 20 (1999).
15. See for both the text of the Rule and the statement of Portugal, Press Release, L/2963 (30 June 2000).