MGM230-1103B-04: Introduction to Business LawPhase 5 Individual Project

Sabrina MergenthalerColorado Technical University

Professor Wendy McKainSeptember 19, 2011

Structure of the ICC

Presidents• Administration

• Composed of three judges• Elected by fellow Judges

• 3-year term

Judicial Divisions• 18 judges• 3 divisions

Pre-Trial, Trial, and Appeals• Conducting proceedings of court

Judge Sang-Hyun SONG (Republic of Korea) President

Judge Fatoumata Dembele DIARRA (Mali) First Vice-President

Judge Hans-Peter KAUL(Germany)Second Vice-President

Structure of the ICC

(Conti nued)

Office of the Prosecutor• Receives referrals and substantial

information• Headed by the Prosecutor

• 9-year term

Registry• Non-judicial aspects of administration

• Headed by the Registrar• 5-year term

Other Offices• Office of Public Counsel for Victims • Office of Public Counsel for Defense

“Road to Rome” • 1872 Gustav Moynier founder of

Committee of the Red Cross

• Response to crimes of the Franco-Prussian War

• 1919 Treaty of Versailles

• war criminals of World War I

• Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals

•1948-Adoption of Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by the United

Nations General Assembly

• 1994-95 Preparatory committee formed

• June 15-17, 1998 “Rome Conference”

• July 1, 2002 the ICC comes into existence

Claude Jorda, Mauro Politi, Anita Usacka, Sang-hyun Song, Karl T. Hudson-Phillips, Fatoumata Dembele Diarra, Akua Kuenyehia, Maureen Harding Clark, Sylvia H. de Figueiredo Steiner, Elizabeth Odio Benito, Philippe Kirsch, Gheorghios M. Pikis, Erkki Kourula, Adrian Fulford, Navanethem Pillay, Hans-Peter Kaul, René Blattmann and Tuiloma Neroni Slade.

History and Formation of the ICC

Luis Moreno-Ocampo,Prosecutor

Fatou Bensouda,Deputy Prosecutor

Phakiso Mochochoko, Head of the JurisdictionComplementarity &Cooperation Division

Michel de Smedt,Head Investigations

Impacts of the ICC

“Men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish and

are unable to punish what turns out to be unforgivable”

(The Human Condition, 1958)

•Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (2005)

• Pressure on Gadhafi (2011)

Registry of the International Criminal Court

Sources of

Law

Treaties• Agreements between two or more nations

• Written• Signed• Ratified

• Conventions

Customs• Consistent, recurring practices

• Two or more nations• Over a period of time

• Binding

(Continued)

Sources of

Law

General principles of law• Derived from National Law

• 1949 Corfu Channel case

Judicial Decisions • Outside cases

• Must be cases from the nations involved

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