Efficiency Lecture Question
In what ways could the ICC’s bureaucracy, finances, judicial election process, and relationship with the States Parties be reformed to increase its efficiency as an instrument for international justice?
Comment on the Efficiency Lecture Question: “In what ways could the ICC’s bureaucracy, finances, judicial election process, and relationship with the States Parties be reformed to increase its efficiency as an instrument for international justice?”
In order for the ICC's processes and relationships to be reformed, there would have to be compromise between the political bodies and the independent judicial body that is the ICC. This compromise could taint the reputation of the ICC because politics cannot be connected to pure justice.
Reform comes when the court, the surrounding bodies, and the nations of the world can become ok with the fact that globalization is partially responsible for creating today's crimes and that many of these crimes are no confined to borders. A willingness to accept these facts will make the prosecutor less prone to only accept trials he or she can win and will make countries more willing to cooperate in the arrests and information gathering for the court. In turn, the court and its surrounding bureaucratic bodies will become more efficient.
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Professor of Law
Comment on the Efficiency Lecture Question: “In what ways could the ICC’s bureaucracy, finances, judicial election process, and relationship with the States Parties be reformed to increase its efficiency as an instrument for international justice?”
In order for the ICC's processes and relationships to be reformed, there would have to be compromise between the political bodies and the independent judicial body that is the ICC. This compromise could taint the reputation of the ICC because politics cannot be connected to pure justice.
Reform comes when the court, the surrounding bodies, and the nations of the world can become ok with the fact that globalization is partially responsible for creating today's crimes and that many of these crimes are no confined to borders. A willingness to accept these facts will make the prosecutor less prone to only accept trials he or she can win and will make countries more willing to cooperate in the arrests and information gathering for the court. In turn, the court and its surrounding bureaucratic bodies will become more efficient.