The Crime of Aggression’s Show Trial Catch-22
Journal: European Journal of International Law
Year: 2018

The crime of aggression amendment to the statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that was adopted in Kampala in 2010 was activated on 17 July 2018. This article argues that this new criminal provision is open enough to allow legally equally sound, but mutually exclusive, arguments that lead to opposite positions on whether the use of force in a particular situation is or is not a crime of aggression. It thereby enables the translation of political contestation on the causes of war and