{"id":9208,"date":"2014-11-15T14:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohelet.org.il\/article\/when-gravity-fails\/"},"modified":"2014-11-15T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T14:20:13","slug":"when-gravity-fails","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.kohelet.org.il\/en\/article\/when-gravity-fails\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen Gravity Fails\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"The ICC Statute requires all situations to meet a \u2018gravity\u2019 threshold as a basic condition of admissibility, along with complementarity. Prof. Eugene Kontorovich’s new article \u2014 When Gravity Fails: Israeli Settlements and Admissibility at the ICC \u2014 has just been published in the Israel Law Review. It focuses on operationalizing the fuzzy gravity requirement, and applying it in the context of other possible situations involving Israel.\n\nThe International Criminal Court\u2019s decision to not pursue a referral by Comoros against Israel, discussed here yesterday, was based on the requirement that the Court only deal with situations of particular \u201cgravity\u201d \u2013 that is, the worst of the world\u2019s worst conduct.\n\nHere is the abstract to the new article:\n\nIn the wake of the UN General Assembly\u2019s recent recognition of Palestinian statehood, the Palestinian government has made clear its intention to challenge in the International Criminal Court (ICC or the Court) the legality of Israeli settlements. This article explores jurisdictional hurdles for such a case. To focus on the jurisdictional issues, the article assumes for the sake of argument the validity of the merits of the legal claims against the settlements.\n\nThe ICC only takes situations of particular \u2018gravity\u2019. Yet settlements are not a \u2018grave breach\u2019 under the Rome Statute. No modern international criminal tribunal has ever prosecuted crimes that do not involve systematic violence and physical coercion. The ICC\u2019s gravity measure involves the number of persons killed; for settlements it would be zero. Indeed, the ICC Prosecutor triages situations by the numbers of victims; settlements do not appear to have direct individual victims. Finally, the ICC would at most have jurisdiction over settlement activity only from the date of Palestine\u2019s acceptance of jurisdiction. Settlement activity in this time frame would not immediately cross the ICC\u2019s gravity threshold.\n\nCambridge University Press is making the article available without a subscription<\/a> until the end of the year.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ICC Statute requires all situations to meet a \u2018gravity\u2019 threshold as a basic condition of admissibility, along with complementarity. Prof. Eugene Kontorovich’s new article \u2014 When Gravity Fails: Israeli Settlements and Admissibility at the ICC \u2014 has just been published in the Israel Law Review. 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