AMICC Advocacy Documents

The Advocacy section of the website includes AMICC advocacy documents, including analysis of the US-ICC relationship.

Opinion Articles

Pro-ICC

• Ellen J. Kennedy, Remembering the Holocaust, MinnPost (April 19, 2012)
• Dan Thomann, Interview: US Involvement in the ICC, Worldview, Chicago Public Radio (August 31, 2008)
• Irene Khan, Violence Against Women: The Unacknowledged Casualties of War, The International Herald Tribune (December 18, 2004)
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich, The US Administration and the ICC, Common Dreams (December 9, 2004)
• Tom Malinowski, Bush's Court Crusade, The Washington Post (August 16, 2002)
• Edward J. Bloch, The ICC Is Needed to Hold Soldiers Accountable, Albany Times Union (July 24, 2002)
• Samantha Power, The ICC Can Serve the US: Prosecuting International Crimes Will Bolster American Security, The Wall Street Journal (July 10, 2002)
• Evan A. Davis, Letter from the President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, Mid-Atlantic Ecition (June 2002)
• David Stoelting, A Permanent Court for Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity, Law.com (2001)

Anti-ICC

• Brett D. Schaefer, Beating the ICC, National Review (February 18, 2013)
• Eric Posner, The Absurd International Criminal Court, The Wall Street Journal (June 10, 2012)
  • Response: AMICC, Eric Posner's The Absurd International Criminal Court, amicc.blogspot.com (June 10, 2012)
  • Response: Bruce Knotts, Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal (June 19, 2012)
• Alex de Waal and Julie Flint, Case Closed: A Prosecutor Without Borders, World Affairs (Spring 2009)
  • Response: Ana Gòmez Rojo, AMICC's Analysis of Case Closed: A Prosecutor Without Borders (May 7, 2009)
• Mahmood Mamdani, The New Humanitarian Order, The Nation (September 10, 2008)
  • Response: Veronica Glick, AMICC's Analysis of The New Humanitarian Order (September 30, 2008)
• Helena Cobban, Think Again: International Courts, Foreign Policy (March/April 2006)
  • Response: AMICC, Reaction to Helena Cobban's "Think Again: International Courts" (March 15, 2006)
• Eric A. Posner, All Justice, Too, Is Local, The New York Times (December 30, 2004)
• Representative Scott McInnis, Justice in the Balance: The the World Court Threaten US or is it the Best Hope for Peace?, Rocky Mountain News (August 17, 2002)
• William F. Buckley Jr, Portable Immunity, National Review, On the Right, Vol. LIV, No. 14 (August 12, 2002)
• Madeline Morris, Judgment Without Democracy, The Washington Post (July 24, 2002) and a response by AMICC Convener John Washburn
• Phyllis Schlafly, International Court Dangerous, Chattanooga Times/Chattanooga Free Press (April 15, 2002)
• Ruth Wedgwood, Rule of Law: An International Criminal Court Is Still a Bad Idea, The Wall Street Journal (April 15, 2002)
  • Responses: Gregory H. Fox, Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal (April 24, 2002) and Kenneth Roth, Letter to the Editor, The Wall Street Journal Europe (April 23, 2002)
• David B. Rivkin Jr., Lee A. Casey and Darin R. Bartram, When Justice For All Isn't Fair, The Washington Post (April 7, 2002)
• Patrick Goodenough, Pro-Family Groups Worry About Effects of International Criminal Court, CNSNews.com (February 11, 2002) and a response by AMICC Deputy Convener Anne Heindel

Other

• Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, John Washburn and Ambassador Chistian Wenaweser, The International Criminal Court's First Decade, Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coanne, WHYY Philadelphia (September 10, 2012)
• Editorial, International Criminal Court, The Boston Globe (July 15, 2012)
• John B. Bellinger III, Congress Should Review Policies Toward War-Crimes Court, The Washington Post (June 21, 2012)
• John B. Bellinger III, A Global Court Quandary for the President, The Washington Post (August 10, 2009)
  • Response: John Washburn, Letter to the Editor, The Washington Post (August 17, 2009)
• Editorial, Judging the ICC: The Cases For and Against US Participation in the International Criminal Court, The Los Angeles Times (March 16, 2009)
  • Response: Matthew Heaphy, Letter to the Editor, The Los Angeles Times (March 20, 2009)

Government Reports

Congressional Research Service

• Report for Congress, International Criminal Court Cases in Africa: Status and Policy Issues (March 7, 2011)
• Report for Congress, International Criminal Court Cases in Africa: Status and Policy Issues (April 2, 2010)
• Report for Congress, The International Criminal Court (ICC): Jurisdiction, Extradition and US Policy (March 16, 2010)
• Report for Congress, US Policy Regarding the International Criminal Court (September 3, 2002)
• Report for Congress, International Criminal Court: Overview and Selected Legal Issues (June 5, 2002)

Policy Reports

American Enterprise Institute

• John R. Bolton, Courting Danger: What's Wrong with the International Criminal Court, National Interest (December 1, 1998)

American Society of International Law

• Beth Van Schaack, Ron Slye, Michael A. Newton, Leila Nadya Sadat, David Tolbert, Valerie Oosterveld, David Scheffer and John Cerone, ASIL Discussion Paper Series, Beyond Kampala: Next Steps for US Principled Engagement with the International Criminal Court (November 2010)
• Report of an Independent Task Force, US Policy Toward the International Criminal Court: Furthering Positive Engagement (March 2009)

Atlantic Council of the United States

• William H. Taft IV and Frances G. Burwell, Policy Paper, Law & the Lone Superpower: Building a Transatlantic Consensus on International Law (April 2007)
  • Response: AMICC's Analysis of Law & the Lone Superpower (August 22, 2007)

Cato Institute

• Gary T. Dempsey, Cato Policy Analysis No. 311, Reasonable Doubt: The Case Against the Proposed International Criminal Court (July 16, 1998)

Council on Foreign Relations

• Paul B. Stares and Micah Zenko, Partners in Preventive Action: The United States and International Institutions (September 2011)
• Vijay Padmanabhan, Council Special Report, From Rome to Kampala: The US Approach to the 2010 International Criminal Court Review Conference (April 2010)
• Report of an Independent Task Force, Finding America's Voice: A Strategy for Reinvigorating US Public Diplomacy (September 2003)
• Ruth Wedgwood, Anne-Marie Slaughter, John R. Bolton and Kenneth Roth, Council Policy Initiative, Toward an International Criminal Court? (July 1999)
• David J. Scheffer, Kenneth Roth and Marc A. Thiessen, Transcript, Should the United States Support a Strong and Independent International Criminal Court? (May 6, 1998)

The Federalist Society

• Lee A. Casey, Eric J. Kadel, Jr., David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Edwin D. Williamson, The United States and the International Criminal Court: Concerns and Possible Courses of Action (February 8, 2002)

The Heritage Foundation

• Marion Smith, Backgrounder, An Inconvenient Founding: America's Principles Applied to the ICC (February 18, 2010)
  • Response: AMICC's Analysis of the Heritage Backgrounder (February 22, 2010)
• Brett D. Schaefer and Steven Groves, Backgrounder, The US Should Not Join the International Criminal Court (August 17, 2009)
  • Response: Wendy Bremang, AMICC's Analysis of the Heritage Backgrounder (September 18, 2009)

UCLA School of Law International Justice Clinic

• Daniel Antalics, Yasmin Elhady, Emily Keehn, Stephanie Montaño, Manisha Munshi and Lindsey Zwicker, The Road to Kampala: US Participation in the Review Conference of the International Criminal Court (April 2010)

Books

• Lee Feinstein and Tod Lindberg, Means to an End: US Interest in the International Criminal Court (Brookings Institution Press 2009)
• The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law (Sarah B. Sewall & Carl Kaysen eds., American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2000)

Law Review Articles

• Megan A. Fairlie, The United States and the International Criminal Court Post-Bush: A Beautiful Courtship but an Unlikely Marriage, 29 Berkeley J. Int'l L. 529 (2011)
• Stephen Eliot Smith, Definitely Maybe: The Outlook for US Relations with the International Criminal Court During the Obama Administration, 22 Fla. J. Int'l L. 155 (2010)
• John F. Murphy, Gulliver No Longer Quivers: US Views on and the Future of the International Criminal Court, 44 Int'l Law. 1123 (2010)
• David Scheffer and Ashley Cox, The Constitutionality of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 98 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 983 (2008)
• David Scheffer, Article 98(2) of the Rome Statute: America's Original Intent, 3 J. Int'l Crim. Just. 333 (2005)
• William A. Schabas, United States Hostility to the International Criminal Court: It's All About the Security Council, 15 Eur. J. Int'l L. 701 (2004)
• Erik Rosenfeld, Note: Application of US Status of Forces Agreements to Article 98 of the Rome Statute, 2 Wash. U. Global Studies L. Rev. 273 (Winter 2003)
• Jaime Mayerfield, Who Shall Be Judge?: The United States, the International Criminal Court, and the Global Enforcement of Human Rights, 25 Hum. Rts. Q. 93 (2003)
• Douglass Cassel, Empowering United States Courts to Hear Crimes Within the Jurisdiction of the ICC, 35:2 New England L. Rev. 421 (2002)
• William K. Lietzau, The United States and the International Criminal Court: International Criminal Law After Rome: Concerns from a US Military Perspective, 64 Law & Contemp. Prob. 119 (2001)
• Michael P. Scharf, The United States and the International Criminal Court: The ICC's Jurisdiction over the Nationals of Non-Party States: A Critique of the US Position, 64 Law & Contemp. Prob. 67 (2001)
• John Washburn and Jennifer Schense, The United States and the International Criminal Court, 35 Int'l Law. 614 (2001)
• David Scheffer, Fourteenth Waldemar A. Solf Lecture in International Law: A Negotiator's Perspective on the International Criminal Court, 167 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (2000)
• David J. Scheffer, Developments in International Criminal Law: The United States and the International Criminal Court, 93 A.J.I.L. 12 (1999)
• Bartram S. Brown, US Objections to the Treaty of the International Criminal Court: A Brief Response, 31 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 855 (1998-1999)
• Paul D. Marquardt, Law Without Borders: The Constitutionality of an International Criminal Court, 33 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 73 (1995)

Anti-ICC

• Jack Goldsmith, The Self-Defeating International Criminal Court, 70 U. Chi. L. Rev 89 (2003)
• Madeline Morris, Democracy and Punishment: The Democratic Dilemma of the International Criminal Court, 5 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 591 (2002)
• Madeline Morris, The United States and the International Criminal Court: High Crimes and Misconceptions: The ICC and Non-Party States, 64 Law & Contemp. Prob. 13 (2001)
• Guy Roberts, Assault on Sovereignty: The Clear and Present Danger of the New International Criminal Court, 36 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 35 (2001)

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