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International Anti-Corruption Court

The International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) is a proposed international court that would strengthen the enforcement of criminal laws against corrupt leaders.[1] The effort to establish the court was first proposed by Judge Mark L. Wolf, a Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, at the 2012 St. Petersburg International Legal Forum, the 2014 World Forum on Global Governance, and in articles for the Brookings Institution and The Washington Post in 2014.[2][3][4]

The IACC proposal was further developed in a 2018 paper published in Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, titled "The World Needs an International Anti-Corruption Court."[5] In 2022, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences published a paper by Judge Mark L. Wolf, Justice Richard Goldstone and Professor Robert Rotberg, titled "The Progressing Proposal for An International Anti-Corruption Court."[6]

The campaign to create the IACC has been led by Integrity Initiatives International (III), an NGO that Judge Mark L. Wolf founded in 2016 with Judge Richard Goldstone, former Justice on the Supreme Court of South Africa and chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and other colleagues. III's mission is to "strengthen the enforcement of criminal laws in order to punish and deter leaders who are corrupt and regularly violate human rights, and to create opportunities for the democratic process to replace them with leaders dedicated to serving their citizens."[7] Establishing the IACC, supporting national anti-corruption measures, and forging a network of young people committed to fighting grand corruption in their own countries are some of its main priorities.

  1. ^ Mark L. Wolf, The Case for an International Anti-Corruption Court, Brookings Institution, Governance Studies at Brookings, July 2014.
  2. ^ Recknagel, Charles (April 10, 2014). "Prague Forum Provides Anti-Corruption Platform". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  3. ^ "The Case for an International Anti-Corruption Court" (PDF). Brookings. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  4. ^ "We need an international court to stamp out corruption". Washington Post. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  5. ^ Wolf, Mark L. (2018). "The World Needs an International Anti-Corruption Court". Daedalus. 147 (3): 144–156. doi:10.1162/daed_a_00507. S2CID 57571237.
  6. ^ "The Progressing Proposal for An International Anti-Corruption Court". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 24 August 2022. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
  7. ^ "Richard Goldstone". Integrity Initiatives International.

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