ASLI Distinguished Lecture: Judging History in the Courts: Asia and the Limits of International Criminal Justice

Event Date

From Wednesday 17 Sep 2025 - 05:30 PM To Wednesday 17 Sep 2025 - 07:00 PM

Venue

NUS Law (Bukit Timah Campus), Wee Chong Jin Moot Court

Organiser

National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

Practice Area

International Law

MEC segment

Training Level

Foundation

Public CPD Points

Event Outline

This lecture discusses “Asia’s ambivalence” to International Criminal Law: the selectivity in the cases prosecuted; the lingering resonance of the “sovereignty” argument vis-à-vis the complementarity principle that the ICC is a court of last resort that intervenes only after the national state has shown itself “unwilling/unable” to prosecute. I propose that Asian states hesitate to join the ICC. If domestic courts are seen as politically vulnerable, why trust a global court to be any different?

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Event Attachment

NUS-250465_EventBrochure.pdf