Is the ICC Targeting Africa Inappropriately? A Moral, Legal, and Sociological Assessment
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES FACING THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (Richard H. Steinberg ed., Brill/Nijhoff 2016)
12 Pages Posted: 9 Mar 2018 Last revised: 17 May 2018
Date Written: March 8, 2018
Abstract
This short essay considers the legitimacy of the ICC’s early focus on Africa along three interrelated dimensions: moral, legal, and sociological. It argues that the ICC’s Africa focus is neither legally nor morally inappropriate, but nonetheless threatens to undermine perceptions of the Court’s fairness.
Keywords: International Criminal Court, legitimacy, Africa, prosecutorial discretion
JEL Classification: K33
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
deGuzman, Margaret M., Is the ICC Targeting Africa Inappropriately? A Moral, Legal, and Sociological Assessment (March 8, 2018). CONTEMPORARY ISSUES FACING THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (Richard H. Steinberg ed., Brill/Nijhoff 2016), Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-17, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3136470
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