Palestine and the International Criminal Court: Implications of Recent Treaty Actions

Palestine and the International Criminal Court: Implications of Recent Treaty Actions

A Talk by John P. Cerone

Location

WCC 3016, Harvard Law School

Time

March 12, 7 pm to 8 pm

Summary

At the turn of the year, Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Palestinian Authority, purported to take two treaty actions with respect to the Statute of the International Criminal Court. The first was to deposit an instrument of accession on behalf of the State of Palestine. The second was to a lodge a declaration of consent with the ICC Registrar, accepting the Court's jurisdiction retrospectively. Both actions are controversial and raise complex legal and political issues. Please join John as he discusses these issues.

Professor John Cerone is the Distinguished Chair in Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Visiting Chair in Public International Law at Lund University Faculty of Law, and Visiting Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University). 

Sponsored by the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program.