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33 Mich. J. Int'l L. 265 (2011-2012)
Choosing to Prosecute: Expressive Selection at the International Criminal Court

handle is hein.journals/mjil33 and id is 273 raw text is: CHOOSING TO PROSECUTE: EXPRESSIVE SELECTION AT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT Margaret M. deGuzman* IN TRODU CTION ............................................................................................ 265 I. SELECTIVITY AS A THREAT TO THE ICC's LEGITIMACY ................ 271 A . The C ritics .............................................................................. 271 B. Mechanics of ICC Selection Decisions ................................... 274 C. ICC Legitimacy Requires Increased Clarity of Community, G oals, and Priorities .............................................................. 276 1. What Is the ICC's Constitutive Community? .................. 278 2. Gravity as a Stand-In for Goals and Priorities ................. 281 II. GOOD PROCESS Is NOT ENOUGH ................................................... 289 A . Independence .......................................................................... 291 B . Im partiality ............................................................................. 293 C . O bjectivity .............................................................................. 296 D . Transparency .......................................................................... 298 III. THEORIZING SELECTION DECISIONS .............................................. 299 A. Failure of Dominant Theories to Justify Selection D ecisions ................................................................ 301 1. R etribution ....................................................................... 30 1 2. D eterrence ....................................................................... 306 3. Restorative Justice ........................................................... 309 B . An Expressive Theory ............................................................. 312 C O N CLU SIO N ............................................................................................... 3 19 INTRODUCTION The International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution in its infancy, has had occasion to make only a relatively small number of decisions about which defendants and which crimes to prosecute. But virtually every choice it has made has been attacked: the first defendant, Thomas Lubanga, was not senior enough and the crimes with which he was charged-war crimes in- volving the use of child soldiers-were not serious enough; the Court * Assistant Professor, Temple University Beasley School of Law; Ph.D. Candidate, National University of Ireland Galway; J.D., Yale Law School; M.A.L.D., Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; B.S.ES., Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. For helpful comments on earlier drafts I am grateful to the participants in the Junior International Law Scholars' Workshop as well as to Diane Marie Amann, Jane Baron, Elena Baylis, Jeffrey Dunoff, Jean Galbraith, Craig Green, Richard Greenstein, David Hoffman, Laura Little, Greg Mandel, Milan Markovic, Craig Martin, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Rod Rastan, William A. Scha- bas, Peter Spiro, Beth Van Schaack, and David Zaring. I am also indebted to Michael Witsch, Brian Farrell, Douglas Maloney, and Anthony Rock for excellent research assistance.

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