26 May 2023 was a historical day for the fight against impunity for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community. On that day, a Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries, held in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, between 15 and 26 May, adopted by consensus the Ljubljana – The Hague Convention on International Cooperation…

On 12 November 2020, the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) released its Guidelines for Agreements Regarding Admission of Guilt (the Guidelines). The document represents the most recent mile on a long and bumpy road headed towards the consolidation of negotiated justice in International Criminal Law. Since plea bargaining anywhere (but…

On 6 October, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its much-anticipated Abd-Al-Rahman trial judgment, in which the defendant was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, between 2003 and 2004. Even before the trial judgment, the case had become paradigmatic for its decisions (here and…