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Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility? A pragmatic proposal for the recruitment of judges at the ICC and other international criminal courts

Bohlander, Michael

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Empirical research has shown that the selection and recruitment of judges at the international criminal courts may not always conform with the criteria set out in the courts' statutes, and that the requirements can differ from court to court. There is concern that judicial positions are handed out on the basis of membership in informal political networks, also called nepotism. This paper summarizes the previous findings and looks at the question of how an adequate standard of judicial candidates can be maintained across the entire system.

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Bohlander, M. (2009). Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility? A pragmatic proposal for the recruitment of judges at the ICC and other international criminal courts. New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 12(4), 529-542. https://doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2009.12.4.529

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2009
Deposit Date Sep 15, 2011
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal New Criminal Law Review
Print ISSN 1933-4192
Electronic ISSN 1933-4206
Publisher University of California Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 12
Issue 4
Pages 529-542
DOI https://doi.org/10.1525/nclr.2009.12.4.529
Keywords International criminal courts, International judiciary, Judicial selection.

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