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International Criminal Court (ICC)

Committee Description

In 1992 the General Assembly directed the International Law Committee to prepare a draft statute for the International Criminal Court; a permanent international court to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and aggression. The treaty to establish the court is currently being ratified. For the Model UN Program the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a chamber, which will hear and prosecute historical people for the alleged crimes they have committed. The judges (attorneys) that make up this chamber will render a decision on each of the four cases being heard. Thirty students will act the role of attorneys/judges who are expected to abandon their national prejudices and become impartial judges of international crimes. Students will be placed into teams of three or four members. Each team presents one side of the case. Four cases will be presented at the program for a total of eight teams. When a team is not presenting their case they act as impartial judges to the teams that are presenting and as such must render a majority and minority decision for the case.

Each attorney will be assigned to a case as a team. Once your role has been assigned students should immediately begin familiarizing themselves with the case and potential arguments. In order to adequately prepare for the conference each team is required to prepare a brief and necessary evidence for presenting their side of the case. A copy of all-final briefs and evidence needs to be served by December 10th to both opposing counsel and to the program staff. Each attorney will receive a copy of the submitted briefs and evidence at the conference.

Realizing the importance of teamwork in this chamber, ICC delegates should possess the following qualities: hard working, able to work in a long distance team environment, demonstrate leadership skills, quick to respond or question on their feet, great speaking technique, dedicated to the project at hand, and preferably a second year delegate.

2010 ICC Cases

ICC vs. Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir
ICC vs Avi Dichter
ICC vs Dominic Ongwen
ICC vs Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte

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ICC Assignments

FINAL BRIEFS WERE DUE ON DECEMBER 18th. if you have not yet submitted your brief, please email your Submission AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

BRIEFS RECEIVED AS OF DECEMBER 31st:

al-Bashir_Prosecution_Brief.doc

al-Bashir_Defense_Brief.doc

Dichter_Prosecution_Brief.doc

Dichter_Defense_Brief.doc

Ongwen_Prosecution_Brief.doc

Ongwen Defense Brief

Ugarte_Prosecution_Brief.doc

Ugarte_Defense_Brief.doc

BRIEF - due December 18th.

Please Email submissions to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

MUN_ICC_Brief_Manual_2010.doc

ICC_2010_Brief_Assignments.xls

A brief is the guiding document that justices will use to prepare themselves to hear your presentation of the case as well as use as a reference when deliberating your case. The brief consists of several distinct sections:

Introduction.
It is designed to give the team a brief opportunity to give the historical background of the case in no more than one single-spaced page.

The Statement of Facts.
Within this section, the team is given the opportunity to provide an orderly written presentation of the facts directly involved with the case at hand. This should be an unbiased, non-debatable presentation and should be three to four single-spaced pages in length.

Argument.
In this section, you present your case supporting or opposing each charge. You present the evidence in this section in whatever manner you choose- biased or unbiased, chronologically or otherwise, but keep in mind that the most direct, simple, and convincing case is often times the best for the court to read and understand. The length of this section will differ depending on the number of charges in the case.

Conclusion.
Reinforces the strong points of your argument and makes the final push for why your side of the case is the correct side to rule in favor of. A good conclusion will remind the court of the charges and outline with specific facts as to why or why not the charges are valid.

Table of Authorities.
Is essentially a bibliography for the information you used in your brief. A short inclusion of the surrounding context for any information you use in your brief should be included in the Table for the benefit of the court at the conference. Also included at the beginning of the brief should be a title page and Table of Contents.

ICC instruction memo 2010.doc

MEMORANDUM - due November 13th.

A memorandum is a one-page memo describing the basic information of all cases to be heard by the respective court. Four paragraphs should be written in total, one per case. Each paragraph should include the facts, principle issue(s), arguments from both sides, and a list of potential resources for each case.

doc ICC Sample Memorandum

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