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Remarks by Todd F. Buchwald

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Todd F. Buchwald*
Affiliation:
Professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University Law School.

Extract

Thank you, Catherine, for that very generous introduction, and also for everything that you and the Society have done to support the two of us and the other Task Force members in preparing the report on which we have been working. Thanks also to Mark Agrast and to Wes Rist, and also to Sean Murphy, for their consistent and invaluable support; and, of course, thanks especially to the other Task Force members—Saira Mohammed, Alex Whiting, David Bosco, and Sandy Hodgkinson—and to our Project Director, Ben Batros, who has been just fabulous in all the work he has done over more than one year now in developing and producing this report.

Type
The Society's Task Force Report on Options for Pragmatic Engagement with the ICC
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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Footnotes

The American Society of International Law commissioned a Task Force to review the U.S. relationship with the International Criminal Court and offer recommendations to Congress and the Biden administration for fostering pragmatic engagement. The Task Force was co-chaired by Todd Buchwald, professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University Law School, and Beth Van Schaack, Leah Kaplan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at Stanford Law School. The Project Director was Ben Batros, director at Strategy for Humanity. The Task Force members were: David Bosco, associate professor at Indiana University's School of Global and International Studies; Sandy Hodgkinson, senior vice president for Strategy and Corporate Development at Leonardo DRS; Saira Mohamed, professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law; and Alex Whiting, professor of practice at Harvard Law School and deputy prosecutor at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor's Office.

References

1 U.S. Dep't of State Press Release, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price, Opposing International Criminal Court Attempts to Affirm Territorial Jurisdiction Over the Palestinian Situation (Feb. 5, 2021), at https://www.state.gov/opposing-international-criminal-court-attempts-to-affirm-territorial-jurisdiction-over-the-palestinian-situation.

2 Letter to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken from Senators Benjamin L. Cardin, Rob Portman, et al. (Mar. 11, 2021), available at https://www.portman.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/Portman%20and%20Cardin%20ICC%20Letter.pdf.

3 In the event, on April 1, 2021, President Biden revoked President Trump's Executive Order. See Exec. Ord. 14022, Apr. 1, 2021, Termination of Emergency with Respect to the International Criminal Court, 86 Fed. Reg. 17895 (Apr. 7, 2021), available at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2021-04-07/pdf/2021-07239.pdf.

4 John R. Bellinger, The United States and the International Criminal Court: Where We've Been and Where We're Going, Remarks to the DePaul University College of Law, Apr. 25, 2008, at https://2001-2009.state.gov/s/l/rls/104053.htm.

5 Intervention of the United States Observer Delegation, Fourteenth Session of the Assembly of States Parties, The Hague, Nov. 19, 2015, available at https://asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP14/GenDeb/ASP14-GenDeb--OS-USA-ENG.pdf.

6 Simon Lewis, Biden Administration to Review Sanctions on International Criminal Court Officials, Reuters (Jan. 26, 2021), at https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-icct/biden-administration-to-review-sanctions-on-international-criminal-court-officials-idUSKBN29V2NV.

7 See David Bosco, Rough Justice: The International Criminal Court in a World of Power Politics 111–12 (2014) (At the end of the day, President Bush “was more concerned about the atrocities in Sudan than he was about the ICC.” (quoting John Bellinger)).