THANKS BUT NO THANKS: Victims Turn On The ICC
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny A group of Kenyan victims of 2007 post-election violence have a message for the International Criminal Court that has been holding itself up as their savior…
Obama Ambassador Proud to Advance Selective Justice
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Did you know the United States has an “Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues”? Yes, well, don’t feel too badly if you didn’t. It’s essentially the definition of…
Failure Is a Growth Industry at the ICC
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Steven Freeland, a professor of international law at the University of Western Sydney, has studied the current track record of the International Criminal Court — i.e. thirteen…
Hope Less
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Via the Kurdish media network Rudaw: Commemorating the Day of International Criminal Justice, Halabja civil society organizations, authorities, civil society activists and victims of chemical weapons renewed…
The Scales Continue to Fall From the World’s Eyes
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Though we’ve obviously been beating the drum for quite awhile in this space, opposition to the International Criminal Court is becoming a less and less…
An End To Impunity For Thee, But Not For Me
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Via the Irish Times: The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has refused to appear before the Kenyan High Court, despite being summonsed in a case aimed…
Here We Go Again: UNESCO Doubles Down On Impotency and Posturing
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Surprise, surprise. Once again we are breathlessly being told that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will refer yet another batch of…
A Critics’ Chorus Grows: Desmond Tutu Vs. the ICC
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation has released a statement regarding the recent kerfuffle between the African National Congress, a South African judge, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and…
Universal Failure
Is failure baked into the International Criminal Court cake? Even some of the Court’s staunchest supporters seem to believe the answer is a resounding Yes. Or so we are led to…
Abuse of Power Will Never Be Remedied By More Power
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny As he awaits his fate at the hands of Dutch immigration authorities, Mathieu Ngudjolo — the first person acquitted of crimes against humanity charges by the…
The International Criminal Court: Money Well Spent?
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Kenya recently settled its outstanding 2014 “contributions” to the International Criminal Court with a €26,110 ($28,542) payment, according to the Court’s Report of the Committee on Budget…
Curiouser and Curiouser: Hague Hypocrisy As Wonderland
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny We’ve noted previously the hammer-of-international-justice-for-thee-but-not-for-me phenomenon that seems to go hand in hand with pleas for International Criminal Court intervention, and this week has provided no exception…
Pay No Attention to the Aspiring Transnational Behemoth Behind the Curtain
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Perhaps you’ve been concerned about the International Criminal Court because of the shamelessly selective enforcement of its purported mission. Or the rent-seeking tendencies hardwired into…
No Escape: How The International Criminal Court Will Impact the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Over at The Washington Times today Center for Freedom and Prosperity President Andrew F. Quinlan presents the International Criminal Court as Exhibit A in his case for why, despite the fact that…
The ICC Runs Into the World’s Largest Powder House Waving A Torch
By Shawn Macomber • Lawfare Tyranny Over at the Daily Beast Andrew Novak lays out a persuasive list of reasons why Palestine is “unlikely to see results from an [International Criminal Court] prosecution for many years, if…