Abstract
In April 2018, while undertaking a brutal ‘war on drugs,’ former President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines rejected the idea that he or his officials could be held to account by the International Criminal Court. He railed, in comments aimed at the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ‘Where is your authority now? If we are not members of the treaty (the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court), why are you…in this country?’ It cannot be conclusively said that Duterte intended to begin a discussion relating to legal and political philosophy, yet his question is an unexpectedly apt introduction to the main themes in my book, ‘The Authority of International Criminal Law: A Controversial Concept.’ The text examines several questions, investigating what authority the Court, and international criminal law more broadly, has. Is it, indeed, limited? And, critically, how might this relate to its legitimacy and the exercise of its power?
| Original language | English |
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| Specialist publication | Fifteen Eighty Four |
| Publisher | University of Cambridge |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Jul 2023 |
