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Mr Ben Batros joined the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in March 2005, after receiving his LLM from Cambridge in 2004. Previously he was a Senior Legal Officer in the International Crime Branch and Criminal Law Branch of the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department in Australia, where he worked on Australia’s ratification and implementation of the ICC Statute and attended the ICC Preparatory Commission and Assembly of States Parties.
Lecture summary:
The past year has been a watershed in the evolution of the ICC. The first two trials have commenced; charges have been confirmed in a third case; and the parties await the confirmation decision in a fourth. As the Court shifts from theory to practice, its body of jurisprudence is rapidly developing. Many of the key decisions to date address questions on which there have been no precedents to follow: core features of the ICC Statute blend both common and civil law traditions, and differ from the Statutes of previous international criminal jurisdictions such as the ICTY, ICTR and SCSL. As a result, the Court must forge its own path, and the terms in which critical questions are being debated and resolved by the Court will chart the course of its operations for years to come.
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