Thread by @rgoodlaw

<thread> Novel, ground-shifting and workable idea:

International Criminal Tribunal for Crime of Aggression Against #Ukraine

Former Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs writes that @UN General Assembly and @antonioguterres can establish it👇

justsecurity.org/80395/united-n…

2. The International Criminal Court does not have jurisdiction for aggression in this situation. This tribunal would.

It thus supplements and complements ICC Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC's vital work.

https://twitter.com/KarimKhanQC/status/1498392819643437056

3. As an international court - the 'International Criminal Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine' - would be able to pierce the veil of head of state immunity.

Upshot: Vladimir Putin and top echelon officials could be prosecuted.

Int'l Court of Justice in 2002👇

4. Why was something like this not tried before, say, a war crimes tribunal for Syria? Because it would've required Syria's consent.

Here - a war crimes tribunal for aggression - just needs consent of government of Ukraine.

a.k.a. @ZelenskyyUa @FedorovMykhailo @SergiyKyslytsya

5. In his article for @just_security, former Assistant-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs Larry D. Johnson notes the precedent for the General Assembly creating such an international criminal tribunal with host state consent.

Cambodia's Khmer Rouge trials.