Episode 30: On the Precipice: The International Criminal Court and State Immunity

In this episode, Paola Gaeta and Roger O’Keefe join Marko
Milanovic and Philippa Webb to discuss recent developments at the
International Criminal Court. The Court has now issued arrest
warrants, or arrest warrants have been sought by the Prosecutor,
for several serving heads of state or government of states that
are not parties to the ICC Statute. Both states parties and
non-states parties are now reacting to these warrants, with
varying degrees of support or condemnation. The hosts and their
guests discuss these developments, focusing on the Court’s
jurisprudence on whether high-ranking officials of non-states
parties can benefit from immunities that they are otherwise
entitled to under general international law.