The International Criminal Court's Ad Hoc Jurisdiction Revisited

The American Journal of International Law Vol. 99(2), p. 421, 2005

12 Pages Posted: 4 May 2017

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Carsten Stahn

Leiden University - Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies

Mohamed El Zeidy

International Criminal Court

Hector Olasolo

Universidad del Rosario; Iberoamerican Institute of The Hague (IIH); The Hague University of Applied Sciences - International Law

Date Written: Apr 2, 2005

Abstract

Article 12(3) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which allows a state that is not a party to the Statute to “accept the exercise of jurisdiction by the Court” by way of a declaration lodged with the registrar, is one of the Statute’s most inconspicuous provisions. It has attracted only brief notice either in the general literature on the jurisdiction of the ICC or in the particular context of the debate over U.S. objections to the Court’s third-party jurisdiction. Few writers have looked closely at the provision’s construction and procedural regime, and the first declaration made by a state under this provision — by the Ivory Coast in February 2005 — has gone almost unnoticed in international theory and practice

Suggested Citation

Stahn, Carsten and El Zeidy, Mohamed and Olasolo, Hector, The International Criminal Court's Ad Hoc Jurisdiction Revisited (Apr 2, 2005). The American Journal of International Law Vol. 99(2), p. 421, 2005, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2962126

Carsten Stahn

Leiden University - Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies ( email )

Leiden University Law Faculty
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Mohamed El Zeidy

International Criminal Court ( email )

The Hague
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Hector Olasolo (Contact Author)

Universidad del Rosario ( email )

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Bogotá (Colombia), DC
Colombia
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HOME PAGE: http://urosario.academia.edu/HectorOlasolo

Iberoamerican Institute of The Hague (IIH) ( email )

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The Hague (Holland), 2686 EM
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HOME PAGE: http://www.iberoamericaninstituteofthehague.org

The Hague University of Applied Sciences - International Law ( email )

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The Hague (Holland)
Netherlands

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