The United States and the international criminal court: The case for "dexterous multilateralism"

From: Chicago Journal of International Law | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

I. INTRODUCTION

On Sunday, December 31, 2000, the United States signed the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ("ICC"), and thus became one of the 139 nations that met the New Year's Eve, 2000 deadline for signature established in the Treaty.1 David Scheffer, who served as the Clinton Administration's Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, signed on the President's behalf, after traveling to the United Nations on the Sunday morning at the direction of the National Security Advisor, Samuel R. "Sandy" Berger.

Scheffer's last major diplomatic mission for the outgoing ...

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