Lunch seminar with Gleb Bogush

The International Criminal Court’s Investigation in Ukraine: Institutional Perspective

On 2 March 2022, after the collective referral of 43 ICC State-parties, The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into the situation in Ukraine. The investigation has already attained significant financial, logistical and political support from States and international organisations.  International criminal law scholars and practitioners, however, acknowledge the institutional limitations of the ICC, as well as the Court's modest record in politically challenging situations. The investigation involving the ongoing international armed conflict, the aggression of non-cooperating major military power, will have to be very different from the situations the Court previously dealt with. 

The talk addresses the challenges facing the ICC in its investigation in Ukraine, as well as the potential impact of the investigation on the Court and its core mission. Despite all due caution, it is argued that the ICC can and should play a critical role in pursuing accountability for the serious international crimes committed in the war in Ukraine.

Speaker bio

Before joining iCourts Gleb Bogush worked as an Associate Professor of Public International Law at the HSE University (Moscow, Russia). He holds his law degree from Moscow State University and defended his PhD thesis on the UN Convention against Corruption in 2004. In 2012 -2015 Gleb was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (Germany).

His main area of interest includes, international criminal law, especially the International Criminal Court, the law on the use of force, and international humanitarian law. His most recent publications and talks dealt with the issues of criminal responsibility for core international crimes, national implementation of international law in the Russian legal order, and the history of international criminal justice.

Gleb is a member of the International Law Association Committee on the Use of Force and included in the list of assistants to counsel before the International Criminal Court.

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