The ICC, Self-created Challenges and Missed Opportunities to Legitimize Authority over Non-states Parties

AbstractThe Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has consistently embroiled the Court in situations involving allegations of the commission of crimes by non-state party nationals on the territory of states parties. For the most part, the Prosecutor has assumed the jurisdiction of the Court over non-state party nationals is well-founded by reference to the provisions of the Rome Statute, without any examination as to why or how those provisions bind non-states parties nationals. W