International Judicial Intervention in the Case of Libya: From Justice Enforcer to Peace Maker Right <i>Constituency and Institutional Independence: Virtues of a Fight against Realpolitik</i>
Journal: Asian Journal of International Law
Year: 2023

Abstract This article investigates the case of Libya; the way the International Criminal Court responded to it; what went wrong; and what the Court could learn from the case for its future. It attempts to show that the regime change strategy followed in Libya jeopardized the international criminal justice mandate of the Court, created a failed state conundrum, and rendered the Court's intervention counterproductive. Also, in cases like Libya, where judicial intervention sits alongside military i