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Akua Kuenyehia, Former First VP of the International Criminal Court

October 28, 2015

Oct. 28th – Kuenyehia rejected critiques that the ICC disproportionately targets poor African states.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has been criticized for what is deemed to be “selective” targeting of poor, African, or “third world” states. Is this a legitimate criticism?  The work of the ICC in Africa has provoked a number of questions. What impact has the ICC had on conflict resolution, peacebuilding, the rule of law, and the struggle to end impunity? Does the ICC’s retributive justice model work in the case of Africa?  Akua Kuenyehia is a former Judge of the International Criminal Court and the former Law Dean of the University of Ghana. As Ghana’s first female professor of law, Kuenyehia is an expert in gender and the law, public international law, and human rights.  Judge Kuenyehia was visiting Penn Law to teach a 3-week course on ‘The ICC from the Perspective of an Appellate Judge.’  This October 28, 2015 event was co-sponsored with the Center for Africana Studies.