Ten years after their first referral to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Ukraine has finally become a member of the court on August 21. Ukraine’s parliament’s ratification comes as a surprise to many, not because it hasn’t been on the cards, but because it just ‘happened’ so quickly rather than being – again – debated endlessly, according to Iryna Marchuk, associate professor of international and criminal law at Copenhagen University and a guest of the podcast. She explains Ukraine’s road to ratification. However, Ukraine has invoked Article 124 of the Rome Statute. Marchuk goes into the contentious domestic reasons behind the inclusion of this provision and how it would potentially protect Ukraine’s armed forces from prosecution under ICC rules for seven years.
A month ago, the Ukrainian army also took the war into Russian territory. In this podcast by our partners at Asymmetrical Haircuts, Craig Martin, professor of international law at Washburn University in Kansas, U.S., talks about the legal ramifications of this military action, and he compared it to the 1973 Yom Kippur War – at least the Israeli response to Egypt and Syria’s attack.
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