The United States and the ICC

Abstract

\n This comment argues that President Biden’s revocation of Trump’s Executive Order 13928, which declared a national emergency and authorized the imposition of various sanctions on officials of the International Criminal Court (ICC), does not represent a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between the United States and the ICC. Offering an overview of this vexed relationship, the author argues that the fundamental sticking point remains the United States’ untenable insistence that the ICC lacks jurisdiction over the personnel of non-State Parties.