TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Article 5: Crimes within the Jurisdiction of the Court T2 - The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court ; a commentary Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-406-64854-0 SP - 111 EP - 126 PB - Beck CY - München ET - 3. Aufl. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Geiß, Robin ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 8 Paras. 2(c)–(f) and 3: War crimes committed in an armed conflict not of an international character T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 SP - 837 EP - 1048 PB - C.H. Beck CY - München ET - 4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Boos, Felix T1 - Bringing States to Justice for Crimes against Humanity BT - The Compromissory Clause in the International Law Commission Draft Convention on Crimes against Humanity JF - Journal of international criminal justice N2 - Draft Article 15 of the International Law Commission’s project on crimes against humanity — dealing with the settlement of disputes arising from a proposed convention — attempts to strike a balance between state autonomy and robust judicial supervision. It largely follows Article 22 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, which renders the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) conditional upon prior negotiations. Hence, the substance of the clause can be interpreted in light of the recent case law of the ICJ, especially in the case Georgia v. Russia. In addition, this contribution discusses several issues regarding the scope ratione temporis of the compromissory clause. It advances several proposals to improve the current draft, addressing its relationship with state responsibility — an explicit reference to which is currently missing — as well as the relationship between the ICJ and a possible treaty body. It also proposes to recalibrate the interplay of the requirement of prior negotiations with, respectively, the possibility of seizing a future treaty body and the indication of provisional measures by the ICJ. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqy053 SN - 1478-1387 SN - 1478-1395 VL - 16 IS - 4 SP - 835 EP - 855 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ulfstein, Geir A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Certiorari through the Back Door? BT - the Judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in Burmych and Others v. Ukraine in Perspective JF - The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals N2 - In its Burmych and Others v. Ukraine judgment of October 2017 the European Court of Human Rights dismissed more than 12,000 applications due to the fact that they were not only repetitive in nature, but also mutatis mutandis identical to applications covered by a previous pilot judgment rendered against Ukraine. This raises fundamental issues as to the role of the Court within the human rights protection system established by the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as those concerning the interrelationship between the Court and the Committee of Ministers. KW - European Court of Human Rights KW - Council of Europe KW - Committee of Ministers Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15718034-12341381 SN - 1569-1853 SN - 1571-8034 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 289 EP - 308 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Volpe, Valentina ED - Peters, Anne ED - Battini, Stefano T1 - Would the world be a better place if one were to adopt a European approach to state immunity? BT - Or, "Soll am Europäischen Wesen die Staatenimmunität genesen"? T2 - Remedies against immunity? N2 - This chapter argues not only that there is no European Sonderweg (or ‘special way’) when it comes to the law of state immunity but that there ought not to be one. Debates within The Hague Conference on Private International Law in the late 1990s and those leading to the adoption of the 2002 UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States, as well as the development of the EU Brussels Regulation on Jurisdiction and Enforcement, as amended in 2015, all demonstrate that state immunity was not meant to be limited by such treaties but ‘safeguarded’. Likewise, there is no proof that regional European customary law limits state immunity when it comes to ius cogens violations, as Italy and (partly) Greece are the only European states denying state immunity in such cases while the European Court of Human Rights has, time and again, upheld a broad concept of state immunity. It therefore seems unlikely that in the foreseeable future a specific European customary law norm on state immunity will develop, especially given the lack of participation in such practice by those states most concerned by the matter, including Germany. This chapter considers the possible legal implications of the jurisprudence of the Italian Constitutional Court for European military operations (if such operations went beyond peacekeeping). These implications would mainly depend on the question of attribution: if one where to assume that acts undertaken within the framework of military operations led by the EU were to be, at least also, attributable to the troop-contributing member states, the respective troop-contributing state would be entitled to enjoy state immunity exactly to the same degree as in any kind of unilateral military operations. Additionally, some possible perspectives beyond Sentenza 238/2014 are examined, in particular concerning the redress awarded by domestic courts ‘as long as’ neither the German nor the international system grant equivalent protection to the victims of serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during World War II. In the author’s opinion, strengthening the jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals, bringing interstate cases for damages before the International Court of Justice, as well as providing for claims commissions where individual compensation might be sought for violations of international humanitarian law would be more useful and appropriate mechanisms than denying state immunity. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-662-62303-9 SN - 978-3-662-62304-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-62304-6_12 VL - 297 SP - 219 EP - 233 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Jauer, Nora T1 - Legal shades of grey? BT - indirect legal effects of 'Memoranda of Understanding' JF - Archiv des Völkerrechts N2 - As part of the current process of de-formalization in international law, States increasingly chose informal, non-legally binding agreements or 'Memoranda of Understanding' ('MOUs') to organize their international affairs. The increasing conclusion of such legally non-binding instruments in addition to their flexibility, however, also leads to uncertainties in international relations. Against this background, this article deals with possible indirect legal consequences produced by MOUs. It discusses the different legal mechanisms and avenues that may give rise to such secondary legal effects of MOUs through a process of interaction with, and interpretation in line with, other (formal) sources of international law. The article further considers various strategies how to avoid such eventual possible unintended or unexpected indirect legal effects of MOUs when drafting such instruments and when dealing with them subsequent to their respective 'adoption'. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/avr-2021-0016 SN - 0003-892X SN - 1868-7121 VL - 59 IS - 3 SP - 278 EP - 299 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Schabedoth, John Alexander T1 - Domestic and international criminal justice BT - challenges ahead JF - KFG working paper series N2 - This paper consists of two parts: In the first part, some of the challenges with which the Internationaal Criminal Court is currently confronted are being presented. First of all, the article will describe the current state of the International Criminal Court and the Rome Statue. Afterwards, the article analyses the Court’s efforts to deal with cases against third-country nationals and the challenges it is facing in that regard. In addition, the Court’s case law will be analyzed in order to determine an increasing ‘emancipation’ of the case law of the International Criminal Court from international humanitarian law. The second part of the paper will briefly discuss the role of domestic international criminal law and domestic courts in the further development and enforcement of international criminal law. As an example of the role that domestic courts may have in clarifying classic issues in international law, the judgment of the German Supreme Court of January 28, 2021 (3 StR 564/19), which deals with the status of costumary international law on functional immunity of State officials before domestic courts, shall be assessed. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4087189 SN - 2509-3762 SN - 2509-3770 IS - 57 PB - Berlin Potsdam Research Group International Law - Rise or Decline? CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Weiß, Norman T1 - Völker- und verfassungsrechtliche Parameter eines deutschen Lieferkettengesetzes JF - Archiv des Völkerrechts N2 - Currently a political debate is ongoing in Germany as to whether Germany should, following the example of several other European countries such as France and the Netherlands, adopt a Supply Chain Act (Lieferkettengesetz). If adopted, the act in question would impose due diligence obligations on German corporations to prevent human rights violations taking place in their respective global supply chains. It is against this background that the article examines the preconditions that must be met in order for such act to be eventually compatible with both, German constitutional and international law. The authors further deal with the question whether Germany might even be obliged under international, as well as under German constitutional law, to enact such a supply chain law in order to protect the human rights of workers employed by companies forming part of the global supply chains of German companies. As far as German constitutional law is concerned the article notably deals with the question whether it is the Federal parliament that may adopt such a law also taking into account the competencies of the European Union in the field, and what are the requirements of legal specificity and proportionality in order for the draft law to stand constitutional scrutiny. The authors further offer detailed suggestions how corporate due diligence standards might be best provided for in the envisaged law and propose a risk analysis approach that varies not only according to specific countries and sector-specific characteristics, but that by the same token also takes into account the ability of the respective German company to exercise an appropriate due diligence standard when it comes to human rigths issues arising within the framewok of their supply chain. As far as the substantive human rights standards are concerned that should serve as benchmarks for the envisaged Supply Chain Act the authors propose to rely on, and refer to, those instruments such as the ICCPR and the CESCR, as well as the ILO treaties containing core labour standards, that enjoy almost universal acceptance and reflect customary international law. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/avr-2020-0028 SN - 0003-892X SN - 1868-7121 VL - 58 IS - 4 SP - 424 EP - 463 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Internationaler Strafgerichtshof am Scheideweg JF - JuristenZeitung N2 - Das Völkerstrafrecht steht fast zwanzig Jahre nach dem Inkrafttreten des Römischen Statuts – der völkervertraglichen Grundlage des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs – angesichts einer inzwischen deutlich veränderten Weltlage an einem Scheideweg. Daher erscheint es geboten, wenn nicht gar zwingend, die Herausforderungen, mit denen sich der Internationale Strafgerichtshof heute konfrontiert sieht, zu analysieren. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/jz-2022-0083 SN - 0022-6882 SN - 1868-7067 VL - 77 IS - 6 SP - 261 EP - 266 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Berdefy, Alina-Camille T1 - Strafverfolgung und Beendigung von Straflosigkeit angesichts des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine BT - Möglichkeiten und Erfolgsaussichten der Einrichtung eines Sondertribunals für das Verbrechen der Aggression JF - Ukraine-Krieg und Recht Y1 - 2023 UR - https://beck-online.beck.de/Bcid/Y-300-Z-UKUR-B-2023-S-164-N-1 VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 164 EP - 167 PB - C.H. Beck CY - München ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Jeßberger, Florian ED - Burghardt, Boris ED - Vormbaum, Moritz T1 - The International Criminal Court’s decision on jurisdiction concerning Palestine and the future of the ICC T2 - Strafrecht und Systemunrecht : Festschrift für Gerhard Werle zum 70. Geburtstag Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-16-161046-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-161046-2 SP - 451 EP - 460 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Geiß, Robin ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 8 Para. 2(b)(xvi): Pillage T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 SP - 539 EP - 554 PB - C.H. Beck CY - München ET - Fourth edition ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Freiburg-Braun, Elisa ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 15ter Exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (Security Council referral) T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17104/9783406779268-927 SP - 927 EP - 932 PB - Beck CY - München ET - Fourth ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 15bis. Exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression (State referral, proprio motu) T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17104/9783406779268-899 SP - 899 EP - 926 PB - Beck CY - München ET - Fourth ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Freiburg-Braun, Elisa ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 8bis Crime of aggression T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17104/9783406779268-686 SP - 686 EP - 726 PB - Beck CY - München ET - Fourth ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Geiß, Robin ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 8 Para. 2(b)(x): Prohibition of physical mutilation T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 SP - 419 EP - 436 PB - Beck CY - München ET - 4 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Geiß, Robin ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 8 Para. 2(b)(xiii): Prohibited destruction T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 SP - 474 EP - 503 PB - Beck CY - München ET - 4 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 5 Crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SP - 107 EP - 116 PB - Beck CY - München ET - Fourth ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Ambos, Kai T1 - Article 124 Transitional provision T2 - Rome statute of the International Criminal Court Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-3-406-77926-8 SN - 978-3-406-74384-9 SN - 978-1-5099-4405-7 SN - 978-3-8487-7648-1 SP - 2905 EP - 2914 PB - Beck CY - München ET - Fourth ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Jauer, Nora T1 - Possible indirect legal effects under international law of non-legally binding instruments JF - KFG working paper series N2 - As part of the current overall process of de-formalization in international law States increasingly chose informal, non-legally binding agreements or ‘Memoranda of Understanding’ (‘MOUs') to organize their international affairs. The increasing conclusion of such legally non-binding instruments in addition to their flexibility, however, also leads to uncertainties in international relations. Against this background, this article deals with possible indirect legal consequences produced by MOUs. It discusses the different legal mechanisms and avenues that may give rise to secondary legal effects of MOUs through a process of interaction with and interpretation in line with other (formal) sources of international law. The article further considers various strategies how to avoid such eventual possible unintended or unexpected indirect legal effects of MOUs when drafting such instruments and when dealing with them subsequent to their respective ‘adoption’. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3840767 SN - 2509-3770 SN - 2509-3762 VL - 48 PB - Berlin Potsdam Research Group International Law - Rise or Decline? CY - Berlin ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Weiß, Norman A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Zimmermann, Andreas ED - Weiß, Norman T1 - Remarks on the relationship between international human rights law and international humanitarian law T2 - Human rights and international humanitarian law : challenges ahead N2 - Back in 1949, and thus only one year after the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, providing a strong signal for a new world order created after 1945 with the United Nations at their centre and combining as their goals both the maintenance of peace and security and the protection of human rights, but also recognising, realistically, that succeeding generations had so far not yet been saved from the scourge of war. Hence, the continued need for rules governing, and limiting, the means and methods of warfare once an armed conflict has erupted. At the same time, the international community has unfortunately not been able so far to fully safeguard individual human rights, its efforts to that effect and the continuous development of international human rights law over the years notwithstanding. Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-83910-826-6 SN - 978-1-83910-827-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108273.00006 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - Edward Elgar Publishing CY - Cheltenham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Koalition locuta. Causa finita? BT - Zur Umsetzung des Koalitionsvertrages zwischen CDU/CSU und SPD im Bereich des staatsangehörigkeitsrechtlichen Optionsmodells JF - Die öffentliche Verwaltung : DÖV ; Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht und Verwaltungswissenschaft N2 - Die staatsangehörigkeitsrechtliche Optionspflicht des § 29 StAG für in Deutschland geborene Kinder ausländischer Eltern, die jus soli die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit erworben haben, bildete eine der Kernfragen des letzten Bundestagswahlkampfes. Im zwischen CDU/CSU und SPD abgeschlossenen Koalitionsvertrag ist vorgesehen, dass für in Deutschland geborene und aufgewachsene deutsche Kinder ausländischer Eltern in Zukunft der Optionszwang entfallen soll und die Mehrstaatigkeit akzeptiert wird, während es im Übrigen beim geltenden Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht bleiben soll. Der Beitrag untersucht vor diesem Hintergrund und im Lichte der nunmehr insoweit vorliegenden Entwürfe die sich aus diesen politischen Vorgaben ergebenden staatsangehörigkeitsrechtlichen Regelungsoptionen und -probleme. Y1 - 2014 SN - 0029-859X IS - 14 SP - 429 EP - 434 PB - Kohlhammer CY - Stuttgart u. a. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Landefeld, Sarina T1 - Europäische Menschenrechtskonvention und Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht der Konventionsstaaten JF - Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht und Ausländerpolitik : ZAR Y1 - 2014 SN - 0721-5746 VL - 34 IS - 3 SP - 97 EP - 136 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Die Wirksamkeit rechtlicher Hegung militärischer Gewalt : ausgewählte Aspekte der Anwendbarkeit und Systemkohärenz des humanitären Völkerrechts Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-3-8114-7725-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - International law scholarship in times of dictatorship and democracy : exemplified by life and work of Wilhelm Wengler Y1 - 2010 SN - 978-0-521-19252-1 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Bäumler, Jelena T1 - Der Afrikanische Gerichtshof für Menschen- und Völkerrechte : aktuelle Herausforderungen Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.kas.de/wf/de/33.20018/ SN - 0177-7521 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Article 1 A, para. 2 Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-19-954251-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Article 33, para. 2 Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-19-954251-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Article 1 F Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-19-954251-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - The obligation to prevent genocide: towards a general responsibility to protect? Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-0-19-958881-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Einführung : Folterprävention im völkerrechtlichen Mehrebenensystem Y1 - 2011 SN - 978-3-86956-104-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Amending the amendment provisions of the rome statute : the kampala compromise on the crime of aggression and the law of treaties Y1 - 2012 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Grundrechtseingriffe durch deutsche Streitkraefte im Ausland und das Grundgesetz Y1 - 2012 SN - 0514-6496 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Grundrechtsschutz zwischen Karlsruhe und Strassburg T3 - Schriftenreihe der Juristischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-11-029669-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110296723 VL - 190 PB - de Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Article 35 Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-969299-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Menschenrechtsverträge als Katalysatoren der Völkerrechtsentwicklung Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-3-86956-196-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Thienel, Tobias T1 - Yugoslavia, cases and proceedings before the ICJ Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-929168-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - State sucession in other matters than treaties Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-929168-7 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Oellers-Frahm, Karin A1 - Tomuschat, Christian A1 - Tams, Christian J. T1 - The statute of the international court of justice : a commentary Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-969299-6 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ET - 2. ed. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - State sucession in treaties Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-929168-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Continuity of states Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-929168-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Das humanitäre Völkerrecht : Befriedung oder Mittel der Akzeptanz kriegerischer Konflikte? Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-935933-10-0 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Bringing Kosovo within the reach of the european convention on human rights : disentangling the convention and the status-issue Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-16-152628-2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - The international court of justice and state succession to treaties: avoiding principled answers to questions of principle Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-0-19-965321-8 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - International courts and tribunals, intervention in proceedings Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-929168-7 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - The security council and the obligation to prevent genocide and war crimes Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Palestine and the international criminal court quo vadis? - reach and limits of declarations under article 12(3) JF - Journal of international criminal justice N2 - In 2009, 'Palestine' lodged a declaration recognizing the jurisdiction of the ICC under Article 12(3). However, in April 2012, the OTP determined that this declaration had not brought about the result, of providing for the ICC's jurisdiction, pending clarification from the political organs of the UN concerning the legal status of Palestine within the organization. On 29 November 2012, the General Assembly granted Palestine the status of a non-member observer state within the UN framework, thereby fulfilling the condition mentioned by the OTP in April 2012. It is against this background that the article considers the current legal effects of the 2009 Palestinian declaration. In particular, it addresses the issue of whether the declaration, when read in conjunction with the 29 November 2012 decision, possesses retroactive effect, i.e. whether it provides, as claimed, for the Court's temporal jurisdiction from 1 July 2002 onwards or rather starting only from 29 November 2012. ... the current status granted to Palestine by the United Nations General Assembly is that of 'observer', not as a 'Non-member State'. ... [T]his... informs the current legal status of Palestine for the interpretation and application of article 12 [Rome Statute]. ... The Office could in the future consider allegations of crimes committed in Palestine, should competent organs of the United Nations... resolve the legal issue relevant to an assessment of article 12. ... International Criminal Court, Office of the Prosecutor, 'Situation in Palestine', 3 April 2012 Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/jicj/mqt014 SN - 1478-1387 VL - 11 IS - 2 SP - 303 EP - 329 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Römer, Lutz T1 - Artikel 27 Dublin III-Verordnung : das Ende des Konzepts "normativer Vergewisserung" Y1 - 2013 SN - 978-3-8114-3914-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Von Mangoldt, Hermann T1 - Article 53 Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-969299-6 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas A1 - Thienel, Tobias T1 - Article 60 Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-0-19-969299-6 ER -