Sergey Vasiliev

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Sergey Vasiliev is Professor of International Law at the Faculty of Law, Open University, the Netherlands.

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Friendly Feast during the Plague: Is the Pre-Trial Chamber Losing its Way on the Palestine Arrest Warrant Proceedings?

Making progress in the politically divisive Situation in Palestine was never to be plain sailing for the International Criminal Court. Yet, when on 20 May 2024 the ICC Prosecutor announced the filing of applications for the warrants for the arrest of five individuals, the path lying ahead of the Court was straightforward – or so…

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The International Criminal Court goes all-in: What now?

The bombshell announcement on 17 March 2023 of ICC arrest warrants against Russian President Putin and his Children’s Rights Ombudswoman Lvova-Belova put an end to one-year long speculations about the first cases to be brought before the ICC in relation to Ukraine. Pre-Trial Chamber II (PTC II) found reasonable grounds to believe they committed war…

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Aggression against Ukraine: Avenues for Accountability for Core Crimes

The unprovoked attack by Russia against Ukraine should be qualified as a crime against peace, or the crime of aggression, as defined in Article 6(a) of the IMT Charter and in Article 8bis of the ICC Statute. There are also allegations of war crimes as the Russian armed forces have targeted…

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