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From bureaucracy to management: The International Criminal Court’s internal progress narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2019

Richard Clements
Richard Clements*
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LLB (honours), LLM cum laude, PhD candidate, University of Cambridge
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Abstract

Within international institutions such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), lawyers increasingly encounter managerial practices which are designed to improve organizational efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Charting this trend, scholars have analyzed these practices with a view to make them more legitimate. However, this scholarly focus overlooks the role of managerial practices in legitimizing and thus sustaining the institutions in which they are embedded. In this article, I ask how managerial practices operate to boost the ICC’s reputation among its global audience. I find the answer in the Court’s use of the juxtaposed images of bureaucracy and management, with all their negative and positive associations. The Court uses these images to narrate a story of its own internal evolution from inefficient bureaucracy to efficient and well-managed organization. This hidden narrative of institutional progress functions rhetorically to frame, focus and distract the attention of the Court’s global constituencies.

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bureaucracyInternational Criminal Courtmanagementmanagerialismnarratives
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 149 - 167
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Footnotes

I would like to thank Surabhi Ranganathan, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, participants in the Cambridge Legal Theory Discussion Group, and two anonymous reviewers for feedback on earlier drafts of this article. Any errors remain my own.

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36 UN General Assembly, Report of the UN Secretary-General Addendum: Comments Received Pursuant to Paragraph 4 of General Assembly Resolution 49/53 on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, UN Doc. A/AC.244/1/Add.2 (1995).

37 Ibid., at 9.

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40 Ibid., at 24.

41 K. Paschke, Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the Audit and Investigation of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, UN Doc. A/51/789 (1997).

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50 This was also guided by the ‘experience of the Tribunals’: International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor, Informal Expert Paper: Measures Available to the International Criminal Court to Reduce the Length of Proceedings, (2003), para. 2, available at www.legal-tools.org/doc/7eba03/pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

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52 International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor, Draft Paper on Some Policy Issues before the Office of the Prosecutor for Discussion at the Public Hearing in The Hague on 17 and 18 June 2003, at 7, available at www.legal-tools.org/doc/abb9f7/pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

53 Ibid.

54 Ibid., at 11.

55 Ibid., at 9.

56 International Criminal Court, ‘International Criminal Court “Now a Fully Functional Judicial Institution”, Assembly of States Parties Told as it Begins One-Week Session’, Press Release No. ASP2004.003-EN, 6 September 2004, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/library/asp/ICC-ASP20040906.003-E.Rev.21.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

57 International Criminal Court, Report on the Activities of the Court, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/3/10, (2004), para. 44.

58 Ibid.

59 Ibid., at 46–7.

60 Ibid., at 47.

61 Ibid., at 57.

62 Ibid., at 59.

63 Ibid., at 63.

64 Also characterized as ‘marketing’: see, e.g., Schwöbel, ‘The market and marketing culture of international criminal law’, supra note 12, at 274–5.

65 International Criminal Court, Report on the Activities of the Court, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/3/10(2004), paras. 19, 32.

66 International Criminal Court, Integrated Strategy for External Relations, Public Information and Outreach (2007), at 4, available at www.legal-tools.org/en/doc/840afa (accessed 11 March 2018).

67 Statement by Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Fourth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, 28 November 2005, at 1 and 5, available at www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/0CBFF4AC-1238-4DA1-9F4A-70D763F90F91/278514/LMO_20051128_English.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

68 Speech by Bruno Cathala, Information session for diplomatic representations, 8 June 2005, at 6, available at www.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/ECD36817-DE8D-4F2B-A75F-DA282FED1AA1/278492/DB200506_BC_En.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

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71 International Criminal Court, Strategic Plan of the International Criminal Court, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/5/6 (2006).

72 Ibid., at 28.

73 Ibid., at 40.

74 Ibid.

75 Ibid., at 41.

76 International Criminal Court, Report of the Committee on Budget and Finance on the Work of its Eleventh Session, ICC. Doc. No. ICC-ASP/7/15(2008), para. 56.

77 International Criminal Court, Report of the Court on Human Resources, Development of a Human Resources Strategy: Progress Report, ICC. Doc. No. ICC-ASP/7/6 (2008), para. 3.

78 Ibid., at 6.

79 Ibid.

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82 International Criminal Court, Report of the Court on Measures to Increase Clarity on the Responsibilities of the Different Organs, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/9/34 (2010), para. 2.

83 Ibid., at 2.

84 Statement by Silvana Arbia, Seventh Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, 17 November 2008, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/6FFBBDCD-313D-4765-A603-0CCE900B4B83/0/ICCASPASP7StatementRegistrar.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

85 Statement by Philippe Kirsch, Seventh Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, 14 November 2008, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/EB40944C-C250-4466-B99A-2F5ACDC8C941/0/ICCASPASP7GenDebePresident_Kirsch.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

86 Statement by Sang-Hyun Song, Eighth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, 18 November 2009, at 9, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP8/Statements/ICC-ASP-ASP8-statements-President-ENG.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018). Other heads of organs repeated this line: see, e.g., Statement by Luis Moreno Ocampo, Eigth Session of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, 18 November 2009, at 7, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP8/Statements/ICC-ASP-ASP8-statements-OTP-ENG.pdf (accessed 11 March 2018).

87 International Criminal Court, Establishment of an Independent Oversight Mechanism, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/8/Res.1 (2009).

88 International Criminal Court, Independent Oversight Mechanism, ICC Doc. No. ICC/ASP/12/Res.6 (2013), para. 3.

89 International Criminal Court, supra note 82, at para. 32.

90 Ibid., at 5.

91 Opening Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at the Fifth Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court, 24 November 2006, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/library/asp/ICC-ASP5_Statement_uk.pdf (accessed 2 November 2018).

92 K. Biering, Statement of Denmark at the General Debate of the Fifth Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, 23 November 2006, at 2, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/library/asp/ICC-ASP5_Statement_denmark.pdf (accessed 2 November 2018).

93 Arbia, supra note 84, at 5.

94 International Criminal Court, supra note 76, at para. 56.

95 S. Pahuja, Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lecture 2018: The Changing Place of the Corporation in International Law, 9 March 2018, available at www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events/2018/03/friday-9-march-2018-hersch-lauterpacht-memorial-lecture-2018-changing-place-corporation (accessed 12 March 2018).

96 International Criminal Court, supra note 76, at para. 56.

97 International Criminal Court, Status Report on the Court’s Investigations into Efficiency Measures for 2010, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/8/6 (2009), para. 6.

98 By the late 2000s, segments of the Court’s audience, including civil society organizations and scholars, also subscribed to the notion of a narrative arc from bureaucracy to management. While I do not expand on this point, their interventions in ICC debates illustrate their uptake of managerial priorities of efficiency and cost-effectiveness in the Court’s internal structures. See, e.g., Human Rights Watch, Memorandum for the Seventh Session of the International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties, 7 November 2008, available at www.hrw.org/report/2008/11/07/human-rights-watch-memorandum-seventh-session-international-criminal-court (accessed 3 November 2018); Coalition for the International Criminal Court, ‘Key Issues at the Eighth Assembly of States Parties’, (2009–2010) 39 The Monitor 4: ‘the best way to achieve cost savings is for the ASP and ICC to undertake a major effort to reform procedures and regulations, and achieve efficiencies that would make ICC processes shorter, fairer and much more effective’. See also, International Bar Association, Enhancing Efficiency and Effectiveness of ICC Proceedings: A Work in Progress (2011), available at file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/ICC%20Monitoring%20January%202011.pdf (accessed 3 November 2018): wherein the IBA advocated streamlined processes across the organs and urged the Court to ‘continue in its ongoing efforts to review its processes and maximise its level of efficiency through coordinated, systematic effort and internal restructuring where appropriate’ (at 11). Scholars also advocated, and continue to advocate, for an efficient, value-for-money Court, see, e.g., Bassiouni, M., ‘The ICC — Quo Vadis?’, (2006) 4 JICJ 421, at 426Google Scholar; Cassese, A., ‘The International Criminal Court Five Years on: Andante or Moderato?’, in Stahn, C. and Sluiter, G. (eds.), The Emerging Practice of the International Criminal Court (2009), 21Google Scholar; B. Taylor, ‘Demystifying the Procedural Framework of the International Criminal Court: A Modest Proposal for Radical Revision’, in Stahn and Sluiter, ibid., at 755; Ford, S., ‘Complexity and Efficiency at International Criminal Courts’, (2014) 29 Emory International Law Review 1Google Scholar; Ambach and Rackwitz, supra note 46.

99 International Criminal Court, Establishment of a Study Group on Governance, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/9/Res.2 (2010).

100 Ibid., at 2.

101 International Criminal Court, Intensifying Dialogue Between the Assembly of States Parties and the International Criminal Court, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/3/Res.8 (2004).

102 Ibid., at 1.

103 International Criminal Court, Report of the Bureau on the Study Group on Governance, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/10/30 (2011), para. 3.

104 Ibid., at 5–6.

105 Ibid., at 8.

106 Ibid., at 9.

107 Ibid., at 9.

108 Ibid., at 11.

109 Ibid., at 8.

110 International Criminal Court, Strengthening the International Criminal Court and the Assembly of States Parties, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/10/Res.5 (2011).

111 International Criminal Court, Report of the Bureau on the Study Group on Governance, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/11/31 (2012), para. 41.

112 Ibid., at 9.

113 International Criminal Court, Report of the Bureau on Study Group on Governance, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/12/37 (2013), para. 8; International Criminal Court, Report of the Bureau on Study Group on Governance, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/13/28 (2014), para. 51(1).

114 The original report in 2011 was ten pages. However, after ballooning in the intervening years, the report shrunk to 22 pages in 2016.

115 M. Simons, ‘Libya Frees Four from International Court’s Team’, New York Times, 2 July 2012.

116 Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, Judgment, ICC-01/04-01/06, Trial Chamber I, 14 March 2012, at 629–30.

117 International Criminal Court, Seventh Status Report on the Court’s Progress Regarding Efficiency Measures, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/11/9 (2012), para. 1.

118 Statement by Sang-Hyun Song, Remarks to the 22nd Diplomatic Briefing of the International Criminal Court, 19 September 2012, at 5, available at www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/other/120919ICCPresidentRemarksTo22thDiplomaticBriefing.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

119 International Criminal Court, Report of the Court on its Organizational Structure, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/11/6 (2012), para. 2

120 Ibid., at 7, 9.

121 International Criminal Court, Report on the Organisational Structure of the Court, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/11/46 (2012), para. 4.

122 International Criminal Court, Comprehensive Report on the Reorganisation of the Registry of the International Criminal Court (2016), available at www.icc-cpi.int/itemsdocuments/icc-registry-cr.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

123 This long shadow is apparent in the scholarly literature: see, e.g., Akhavan, P., ‘The Rise, and Fall, and Rise of International Criminal Justice’, (2013) 11 JICJ 527, at 535Google Scholar: ‘The inordinate bureaucratization of international tribunals, and the inordinate length and cost of trials, is a substantial challenge to the viability of international criminal justice. Serious consideration must be given to improving performance, not least because the ICC has a global reach and must address multiple situations simultaneously, within its budget constraints.’

124 I borrow this phrase from David Kennedy: Kennedy, D., ‘The Mystery of Global Governance’, (2008) 34 Ohio Northern University Law Review 827, at 847Google Scholar.

125 Fernández’s term as president expired on 10 March 2018, and was replaced by Chile Eboe-Osuji.

126 See, e.g., Bergsmo, M., et al., ‘A Prosecutor Falls, Time for the Court to Rise’, (2017) 86 FICHL Policy Brief SeriesGoogle Scholar.

127 Von Hebel lost his re-election bid in March 2018.

128 International Criminal Court, supra note 122, at ix.

129 Statement by Herman von Hebel, Presentation of the 2014 Proposed Programme Budget 12th Session of the Assembly of States Parties, 23 November 2013, at 2, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP12/ASP12-Statement-REG-ENG.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

130 Ibid., at 6–7.

131 Statement by Herman von Hebel, Remarks to the 13th Session of the Assembly of States Parties, 15 December 2014, at 6, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP13/ASP13-BG-Statement-Registrar-ENG.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

132 International Criminal Court, Report of the Registry on the Outcome of the ReVision Process, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/14/19 (2015), para. 28.

133 Statement by Fatou Bensouda, Address to the Eleventh Session of the Assembly of States Parties, 14 November 2012, at 2, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/NR/rdonlyres/3A2E6029-40FB-4BA8-B2D5-D1489953050C/0/ASP11OpeningOTPBensoudaENGFRA.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

134 Ibid., at 19.

135 A. Hirsch, ‘Fatou Bensouda: The Woman Who Could Redeem the International Criminal Court’, Guardian, 14 June 2012.

136 These were to ‘conduct impartial, independent, high quality, efficient and secure preliminary examinations, investigations and prosecutions’; ‘further improve the quality and efficiency of preliminary examinations, investigations, prosecutions’; ‘maintain a professional office with specific attention to… staff quality and motivation, performance management and measurement’; and ‘ensure good governance, accountability and transparency’: International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor, Strategic Plan 2012–2015, para. 32, available at www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/OTP-Strategic-Plan-2013.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

137 Ibid., at 6.

138 Ibid., at 8.

139 International Criminal Court, Third Meeting of the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties: Agenda and Decisions (2015), at 2, available at www.legal-tools.org/doc/490d63/pdf/ (accessed 2 November 2018).

140 Statement by Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Presentation of the Court’s Annual Report to the Assembly of States Parties, 18 November 2015, at 1, available at asp.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/asp_docs/ASP14/GenDeb/ASP14-Opening-ST-PRE-ENG.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018). Of the various points made in this speech, it was the Court’s efficiency and effectiveness that featured prominently in the subsequent press release: see also International Criminal Court, ‘Enhancing the Court’s Efficiency and Effectiveness – a Top Priority for ICC Officials’, International Criminal Court Press Release, 24 November 2015, available at www.legal-tools.org/doc/b99fa5/pdf/ (accessed 12 March 2018).

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143 Other internal Court actors were equally committed: see, e.g., Ambach and Rackwitz, supra note 46; Ambach, P., ‘A Look towards the Future—The ICC and “Lessons Learnt”’, in Stahn, C. (ed.), The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court (2015)Google Scholar.

144 Statement by Herman von Hebel, Remarks to the Twenty-Fifth Diplomatic Briefing to the International Criminal Court, 26 March 2015, at 2, available at www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/db/25-DB-Reg-Eng.pdf (accessed 12 March 2018).

145 International Criminal Court, Strategic Plan for the International Criminal Court 2013-2017, 18 April 2013, at 3; International Criminal Court, Report of the Bureau on the Strategic Planning Process of the International Criminal Court, ICC Doc. No. ICC-ASP/11/30 (2012), at part D.

146 S. Maupas, ‘ICC under fire for internal mismanagement’, JusticeInfo.net, 26 February 2018, available at www.justiceinfo.net/en/justice-reconciliation/36556-icc-under-fire-for-internal-management.html?Itemid=102 (accessed 19 September 2018).

147 See, e.g., K.J. Heller, ‘ICC Labor Woes Part II: What’s Two Million Euros Between Friends?’, Opinio Juris, 30 June 2018, available at opiniojuris.org/2018/06/30/the-iccs-labor-woes-part-ii/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+opiniojurisfeed+%28Opinio+Juris%29 (accessed 19 September 2018).