This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, one of the most innovative international institutions, from the unique perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo. Moreno Ocampo received the unprecedented mandate to trigger the International Criminal Court's investigation into sovereign states in June 2003, just three months after the Iraq invasion. At the time, there were serious doubts about the ICC's viability. By 2012, the end of his tenure, the future of the ICC was no longer at risk. However, as Moreno Ocampo's experiences have shown, what was and still is up for debate is the Rome Statute's ability to "contribute to the prevention" of future crimes. The implementation of the Rome Statute has coincided with the War on Terror. The international criminal justice system that protects the rights of victims and suspects clashes with the US policy authorizing the killing abroad of individuals considered enemy combatants. Legal designs are literally a matter of life or death. This book examines a consequential blind spot: The War on Terror obstructed justice and promoted terrorism. The Iraq intervention produced the 'Islamic State', and after twenty years of occupation, the Taliban returned to power. The Afghanistan occupation has ended, but not so the War on Terror. Using drones and proxy forces to eliminate enemies in foreign countries has become the "new normal." Arguing that there is no chaos, just complexity, Moreno Ocampo produces an interdisciplinary analysis of his decisions, describing a "fragmented" international legal system's operation and the relationships between legal and political decisions. This book aims to help new generations to manage violence with new ways of legal and political thinking.

About the Author
Luis Moreno Ocampo was appointed by 78 nations as the founding Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2003. He received the unprecedented mandate to trigger the Court's intervention into sovereign states, making the decision to commence investigations and trials in seventeen different countries. Previously he was the deputy prosecutor in the "Junta trial" and intervened as a national prosecutor in other crucial cases related to Argentina's transition to democracy. He contributed to anticorruption efforts by the World Bank and NGOs like Transparency International. He was a visiting Professor at Stanford, Harvard, Hebrew, and Al Qud Universities, and a senior fellow at Yale and NYU.


Book Information
ISBN 9780197628973
Author Luis Moreno Ocampo
Format Hardback
Page Count 648
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 1096g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 166mm * 38mm