THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION: THE UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Koh, Harold Hongju; Buchwald, Todd F.
• 署名单位: Yale University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-9300
• DOI: 10.5305/amerjintelaw.109.2.0257
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 257-295
• 关键词: kampala compromise

摘要

At the 2010 Review Conference in Kampala, the states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to adopt seven amendments to the Rome Statute that contemplate the possibility of the Court exercising jurisdiction over the crime of aggression subject to certain conditions. One condition was that the exercise of jurisdiction would be subject to a decision to be taken after 1 January 2017 by the same majority of States Parties as is required for the adoption of an amendment to the Statute, and another was that such jurisdiction could be exercised only with respect to crimes of aggression committed one year after the ratification or acceptance of the amendments by thirty States Parties. 1 As these dates approach, we-two lawyers who represented the United States at the Kampala conference and who worked many hours on the United States' reengagement with the ICC during the Obama administration-thought it an appropriate moment to take stock of where we are, how we got here, and where we might or should be headed with respect to the crime of aggression.