The International Criminal Court is an intergovernmental organization and international tribunal seated in The Hague,Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for the international crimes of genocide,crimes against humanity,war crimes and the crime of aggression. The ICC is distinct from the International Court of Justice,an organ of the United Nations that hears disputes between states.
Elizabeth Odio Benito is a lawyer and politician from Costa Rica. She served as President in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 2018 to 2020. She was a Vice-President of the International Criminal Court. She previously served as a judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,and in her home country of Costa Rica was twice appointed Justice Minister,later becoming Vice-President of the Republic. Her background is as an academic lawyer,specialising in the administration of justice and human rights,in particular the rights of women.
Theodor Meron,is an American-Israeli lawyer and judge. He served as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY),International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),and the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (Mechanism). He served as President of the ICTY four times and inaugural President of the Mechanism for three terms (2012–19).
Dominic Ongwen is a Ugandan former child soldier and former commander of one of the brigades of the Ugandan guerrilla group Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
Ana Dolidze is a Georgian attorney,professor of international law and government official,founder and chairman of the "For the People" party. A speaker and writer on international law and human rights in Caucasus and Central Eurasia,she was appointed as the chief legal adviser to the President of Georgia on 27 June 2016. On 8 January 2018 the President of Georgia appointed Dolidze to the High Council of Justice,the body that oversees the judiciary.
The eighteen judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) are elected for nine-year terms by the member-countries of the court. Candidates must be nationals of those countries and they must "possess the qualifications required in their respective States for appointment to the highest judicial offices".
Karim Asad Ahmad Khan is a British lawyer specialising in international criminal law and international human rights law,who has served as Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since 2021.
Fatou Bom Bensouda is a Gambian lawyer and former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC),who has served as the Gambian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom since 3 August 2022.
Anita Ušacka is a Latvian and international judge and legal academic. She has been a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Latvia and of the Trial and Appeals Divisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC). She was president of the Appeals Division of the International Criminal Court in 2011/2012. She retired in 2015.
Hans-Peter Kaul was a German international law scholar and former diplomat and lawyer. From 11 March 2003 until 1 July 2014,he served as Judge at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. At the ICC,Kaul was President of the Pre-Trial Division from 2004 until March 2009 and again in 2014,and he was the Court's Second Vice-President from 2009 to 2012. In 2014,he resigned from the ICC for health reasons but his condition became worse and he died on 21 July 2014.
The Ministry of Justice of Georgia is a governmental agency within the Cabinet of Georgia in charge of regulating activities in the justice system,overseeing the public prosecutor,maintaining the legal system and public order,protection of the public and instituting law reforms in Georgia. The ministry is headed by Rati Bregadze.
Thea Tsulukiani is a Georgian politician who is currently serving as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture,Sport and Youth of Georgia. She previously served as Minister of Justice from October 2012 to October 2020. Prior to her ministerial roles,she ran as a candidate for the Free Democrats (Georgia),and was elected as Member of Parliament for Nazaladevi,a single- mandate constituency of the capital,with 72% of the vote. She resigned on 29 September 2020,effective 1 October. Since December,2020 she is a member of Parliament of Georgia.
Amal Clooney is a British international human rights lawyer. Notable clients of hers include former Maldivian president Mohamed Nasheed,Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange,former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko,Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad,Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa,Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova,and Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy. She has held various appointments with the Government of the United Kingdom and the United Nations,and is also an adjunct law professor at Columbia Law School. In 2016,she and her husband,the American actor George Clooney,co-founded the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
The International Criminal Court Moot Court Competition or ICCMCC is an annual international moot court competition on international criminal law that is held at The Hague and organised by the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University,The Hague Campus,with the institutional support of the International Criminal Court and International Bar Association. Pace Law School had conceived of the moot as an in-class exercise in 2004,and it was in 2005 that a domestic competition was started. The competition became international the following year,with the finals being held in 2007. With sometimes more than 100 teams from 50 countries taking part annually,the ICCMCC is the world's largest competition on international criminal law and is considered one of the grand slam or major moots. The competition has been held in various languages thus far;in addition to English,there are also Chinese,Spanish,French,and Russian editions of the competition.
Solome Balungi Bossa is a Ugandan judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC). Prior to her election to the ICC,she was a member of the Court of Appeal in Uganda,which also doubles as the Constitutional Court in the Judiciary of Uganda. She was elected to a nine-year term on 5 December 2017 and was sworn in on 9 March 2018. Previously she was appointed to a six-year term on the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights in 2014.
Victor P. Tsilonis,also known as Viktor P. Tsilonis,is the CEO and principal legal counsel of NEWLAW law firm,an international jurist,and was Greece's nominee for the 2020 judicial elections of the International Criminal Court,which is based in The Hague,Netherlands. He is also a member of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA),currently serving as the Chairman of the ICCBA Professional Standards Advisory Committee,while formerly being ICCBA Vice President for Victims (2021-2022). In 2019-2020 he was also elected as a Vice President for Victims and served simultaneously as the Chairman of the Professional Standards Advisory Committee. Moreover,Tsilonis initially served a four-year term (2018–2022) as an elected ICC Disciplinary Board Alternate Member and has tried four disciplinary cases under this capacity,while now is a Member of the ICC Appeals Disciplinary Board (2023-2027).
Tomoko Akane is a Japanese jurist and a current judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for Japan,as well as the president of the court.
Althea Violet Alexis-Windsor,is a Judge of the International Criminal Court. She has been a high court judge of Trinidad and Tobago.
Piotr Józef Hofmański is a Polish jurist and judge who served as President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2021 to 2024 and as a judge of the ICC from 2015 to 2024. Prior to this tenure,Hofmański was a legal expert and advisor at the Council of Europe.
The International Criminal Court investigation in Ukraine or the Situation in Ukraine is an ongoing investigation by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) into "any past and present allegations of war crimes,crimes against humanity or genocide committed on any part of the territory of Ukraine by any person" during the period starting "from 21 November 2013 onwards",on an "open-ended basis",covering the Revolution of Dignity,the Russo-Ukrainian War including the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia,the war in Donbas and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ICC prosecutor commenced these investigations on 2 March 2022,after receiving referrals for the situation in Ukraine from 39 ICC State Parties.
