The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has announced that they are seeking arrest warrants for 5 persons associated with the Hamas/Israel conflict, including the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. The announcement promoted an intense international debate over the role of the ICC in the Hamas/Israel conflict.

This CIPL seminar will consider the international law issues arising from this development, including:

• Jurisdiction of the ICC
• Who is subject to the arrest warrants
• The alleged crimes
• Issues arising from the arrest warrants being issued
• Australia’s role as a party to the Rome Statute

About the Speakers:

Richard Rowe

Professor Richard Rowe PSM is a former senior officer of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade where he was the Department’s Senior Legal Adviser with overall responsibility for the International Legal as well as the Corporate Law areas. He has also been Head of the International Organisations and Legal Division and the Pacific Division in the Department. He has been Ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and has served in senior positions in Australian Missions in New York, Geneva, Noumea, London and Hanoi. He is an Honorary Professor in the ANU College of Law. He has a particular interest in diplomatic tradecraft and negotiation skills.

Douglas Guilfoyle

Professor Douglas Guilfoyle joined UNSW Canberra in 2018. His principal areas of research are maritime security, the international law of the sea, and international and transnational criminal law. Particular areas of specialism include maritime law-enforcement, the law of naval warfare, international courts and tribunals, and the history of international law. He is a 2022-2025 Australian Research Council Future Fellow, working on the project "Small States' use of law of the sea litigation against greater powers" (FT210100186). He is also a non-resident fellow at the Sea Power Centre - Australia and was a Visiting Legal Fellow at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2018-2019).

Danielle Ireland-Piper

Dr Danielle Ireland-Piper is Associate Professor and the Academic Director at the ANU National Security College. She has a PhD from the University of Queensland and an LLM from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Chevening and Pegasus Scholar. Her teaching and research expertise includes national security, constitutional law, comparative law, and international law (including space, citizenship, human rights, armed conflict, climate, and transnational crime). Danielle has been a visiting scholar in Fiji, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. She has been the recipient of teaching and research awards, including an Australian Government citation.

Cecilia Jacob

Cecilia is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at the Coral Bell School. Her work focuses on civilian protection, mass atrocity prevention, and international human protection norms. She has advised governments on atrocity prevention and conflict-related policy and has consulted for a number of UN agencies and humanitarian organisations, including the UN Joint Office on the Prevention of Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect. From 2020-2023, Cecilia was an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Cecilia is editor of the journal Global Responsibility to Protect and is co-chair of the Asia-Pacific Regional Grouping of GAAMAC (Global Action Against Mass Atrocity Crimes). She has held visiting appointments at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (2023), the Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford (2022), and at the Ralph Bunch Institute, City University of New York (2018).

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Contact the host of The ICC, and the Hamas/Israel conflict