Criminalizing Aggression: How the Future of the Law on the Use of Force Rests in the Hands of the ICC
Journal: European Journal of International Law
Year: 2018

The activation of Articles 8bis, 15bis and 15ter of the Rome Statute in July 2018 has once again fuelled debates over the prosecution of the crime of aggression. While various flaws and imperfections of the Kampala Amendments have attracted scholarly attention in recent years, the present article focuses on one particular source for concern – that is, the implications that the activation of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction may have for the legal regime governing the use of f