This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, perhaps the most innovative international institution, from the unique perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Luis Moreno Ocampo was appointed by 78 nations as the founding Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in 2003. He received the unprecedented mandate to trigger the Court's intervention into sovereign states, making the decision to commence investigations and trials in seventeen different countries. Previously he was the deputy prosecutor in the "Junta trial" and intervened as a national prosecutor in other crucial cases related to Argentina's transition to democracy. He contributed to anticorruption efforts by the World Bank and NGOs like Transparency International. He was a visiting Professor at Stanford, Harvard, Hebrew, and Al Qud Universities, and a senior fellow at Yale and NYU.

• Preface


• Introduction


• Background


• Chapter 1: The Appointment and the First Days.


• Chapter 2: The Rome Statute Creating a New Legal Field: Jus ad Curiam


• Chapter 3: The New Jus ad Bellum: The War on Terror


• Chapter 4: Building the Office of the Prosecutor


• Chapter 5: The Prosecutor's Authority in the Jus ad Curiam Phase


• First Part: Preliminary Examinations in the States Parties' Jurisdiction.


• Chapter 6: Selecting DRC as the First Situation to be Investigated


• Chapter 7: The Uganda Preliminary Examination


• Chapter 8: The Office of the Prosecutor Policy on "Interest of Justice"


• Chapter 9: Peace and Justice: The "Juba Talks"


• Chapter 10: Central African Republic Referral


• Chapter 11: The Office of the Prosecutor Using its Proprio Motu Authority in Kenya


• Chapter 12: The Preliminary Examinations Decisions Not to Open an Investigation


• Chapter 13: Ongoing Preliminary Examinations


• Chapter 14: Jus ad Curiam decisions in Colombia


• Second Part: Jus ad Curiam and Jus ad Bellum Decisions Adopted by the UN Security Council, the US and Cote d'Ivoire


• Chapter 15: Jus ad Curiam and Jus ad Bellum in the Iraq Situation


• Chapter 16: The UN Security Council Resolution Referring the Darfur Situation to the ICC


• Chapter 17: President Obama's Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello Decisions


• Chapter 18: The ICC Investigation in Afghanistan


• Chapter 19: The Libya Jus ad Curiam Decision


• Chapter 20: War and Justice in the Gaddafi Case


• Chapter 21: Jus ad Curiam and Jus ad Bellum decisions in Cote d'Ivoire.


• Chapter 22: Jus ad Curiam and Jus ad Bellum decisions in Syria


• Epilogue and Final Observations