Council Special Report on the Seven Year Review Conference for the International Criminal Court

Directors: John B. Bellinger III, Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law, and Matthew C. Waxman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
January 25, 2010 - April 30, 2010

The United States faces a series of difficult policy and strategic questions with respect to its participation in the upcoming International Criminal court (ICC) Review Conference at Kampala, Uganda. The conference will consider the addition of the definition of the crime of aggression as well as a restriction on the rights of states to opt out of the Court's jurisdiction over war crimes. The conference may also consider proposals that the United States strongly opposed in the 1998 Rome negotiations. This Council Special Report will recommend primary and secondary objectives for the United States at the conference and suggest steps the Obama administration should take to best empower American negotiators to achieve those objectives.

Publications

Meetings

Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee Meeting

Chair:

Walter B. Slocombe, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered

Presider:

Matthew C. Waxman, Council on Foreign Relations
March 11, 2010

This meeting is not for attribution.

Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee Meeting

Chair:

Walter B. Slocombe, Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered

Speaker:

Matthew C. Waxman, Council on Foreign Relations
January 25, 2010

This meeting is not for attribution.