The Crime of Aggression Useless Anachronistic and Beautiful

The Crime of Aggression: Useless, Anachronistic – and Beautiful

Art. 15 bis, Paragraph 5 In respect of a State that is not a party to this Statute, the Court shall not exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression when committed by that State’s nationals or on its territory.

Art. 121(5) Sentence 1: Any amendment to articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this Statute shall enter into force for those States Parties which have accepted the amendment one year after the deposit of their instruments of ratification or acceptance. Sentence 2: In respect of a State Party which has not accepted the amendment, the Court shall not exercise its jurisdiction regarding a crime covered by the amendment when committed by that State Party's nationals or on its territory.

Art. 15 bis, Paragraph 4 The Court may, in accordance with article 12, exercise jurisdiction over a crime of aggression, arising from an act of aggression committed by a State Party, unless that State Party has previously declared that it does not accept such jurisdiction by lodging a declaration with the Registrar. The withdrawal of such a declaration may be effected at any time and shall be considered by the State Party within three years.

ICC-ASP/16/Res. 5 [T]he Court shall not exercise its jurisdiction regarding a crime of aggression when committed by a national or on the territory of a State Party that has not ratified or accepted these amendments.

Art. 121(5), Sentence 2 In respect of a State Party which has not accepted the amendment, the Court shall not exercise its jurisdiction regarding a crime covered by the amendment when committed by that State Party's nationals or on its territory.

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Art. 8 bis(1) For the purpose of this Statute, “crime of aggression” means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.

Art. 8 bis(1) For the purpose of this Statute, “crime of aggression” means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.

Art. 8 bis(1) For the purpose of this Statute, “crime of aggression” means the planning, preparation, initiation or execution, by a person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State, of an act of aggression which, by its character, gravity and scale, constitutes a manifest violation of the Charter of the United Nations.

Sam Moyn [G]iven Nuremberg’s overwhelming emphasis on the evil of war itself, one might have thought that the prime legacy of that storied event for present-day international criminal law would have been a comparable focus on the crime of “aggression” … Yet today, in spite of recent efforts to return aggression some of its original status as “supreme crime, ” international criminal law since its 1990 s reinvention has exclusively focused on accountability for atrocity instead. Now it is genocide that is routinely considered the “crime of crimes, ” and public attention always gives pride of place to crimes against humanity and war crimes alongside it.