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This chapter will describe the jurisdiction of the Court, including the definitions of the crimes to be investigated and the exhaustion of domestic remedies. The Court prosecutes four core crimes: genocide , war crimes , crimes against humanity , and aggression . The Rome Statute reflected an emerging consensus about the first three of these crimes, but deferred agreement on the crime of aggression. Aggression is the most controversial of the four as the definition includes the unlawful use of military force by very senior level military and civilian leaders. The ways in which the Court receives a case will be explored in this chapter, including the UN Security Council referral mechanism, investigations opened by the prosecutor in member states, or cases in which a member country refers a dispute to the Court.

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Novak, A. (2015). Jurisdiction of the Court. In: The International Criminal Court. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15832-7_4

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