Wheeler, Caleb  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3076-2351
2025.
Holding the purse strings: how political interests limit the effectiveness of the International Criminal Court.
Who Judges the Judges? Oversight mechanisms in international dispute resolution'.,
OUP,
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Abstract
In his commentary, Caleb Wheeler pulls further on a thread identified by Ring in her chapter which engenders the ICC’s failure to comply with its Statute and the Court’s Rules for Procedure and Evidence in respect of victim participation: namely, the role of politics. Deepening on this issue, this commentary highlights states’ performative support for the ICC’s work while it concerns criminal investigations or prosecutions of those to whom they are ideologically opposed or indifferent, and the sudden dramatic changes of mind which accompany the ICC’s attention toward themselves or their allies. Further, the commentary underlines the role of persistent underfunding of the Court’s work – highlighted even in judicial decisions – in continuing to undermine the ICC’s ability to meet its mandate. In doing so, this contribution asserts that the challenges facing the victim participation regime may have less to do with insufficient judicial oversight as they do with the political motivations of the ASP.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Status: | In Press |
| Schools: | Schools > Cardiff Law & Politics Schools > Law |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JX International law K Law > K Law (General) K Law > KZ Law of Nations |
| Publisher: | OUP |
| Last Modified: | 22 Sep 2025 11:31 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181159 |
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