park2026:
Criminalizing Ecocide: Will Corporations Change?
Introduction
As climate change accelerates and ecosystems face unprecedented destruction, existing legal frameworks have proven inadequate to prevent or meaningfully deter large-scale environmental harm. Corporations, especially transnational corporations operating across jurisdictions, play a central role in driving deforestation, pollution, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas emissions, often...(more)
Wangu Gatonye:
I.
Introduction
“Ecocide” was coined in the 1970s through a proposal by Professor Arthur W. Galston, but has only recently gained popularity in legal circles.1
The proposed definition is: “[U]nlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts.”2
The work that the diverse Independent...(more)
Talia Boyadjian:
Why the
IEPs
Draft Definition of Ecocide Cannot Work as a Core Crime
The concept of
ecocide
has circulated long before current efforts to amend the
Rome Statute,
with domestic and international circles debating it as a proposed legal tool to address human-caused extreme environmental destruction.1
Early formulations data back to the Vietnam War in response to large-scale wartime...(more)
Invited Expert:
“Africa Debate — Is the ICC Targeting Africa Inappropriately?”
politics issue
The targeting of Africa by the ICC during its close to two decades of existence was inappropriate. The criticism that the exclusive targeting of Africa was a subterfuge by former colonial powers to...Decentralized Accountability issue
On assuming office as the ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan KC moved early to make complementarity an important cornerstone of his prosecutorial policy. In so doing, he has reset the ICC on the universal...U.S. Sanctions issue
The US Executive Order is unreasonably expansive and appears to apply to potential ICC investigations against unspecified "allies". In this respect, the US Executive Order is an escalation of a...outreach issue
I find the contributions refreshing and interesting. However, there appears to be a presumption that the Outreach policy and the program overseeing its implementation is properly constituted and...africa issue
NTAGANDA INVITES THE ICC TO LOOK BEYOND AFRICA The surrender of Bosco Ntaganda is a positive development not so much because it brings the ICC closer to those who bear the greatest responsibility for...