ABSTRACT
First of all, I would like to thank you for your invitation, which I really appreciate. This initiative comes after research carried out by the two universities of Trento and Salento (previously, University of Lecce) within a combined project on ‘ICC: judicial cooperation and domestic implementation in the light of the Statute of Rome and national and international practice’. Professor Mauro Politi, who, as you know, is one of the Court’s judges, coordinated the project. This research has two targets: one is to determine the content and functioning of the complementarity principle as contained in the Rome Statute in the light of the continuous development of international criminal law; the second is evaluating how the system of international cooperation provided by the Statute is effective when considering the laws on international cooperation issued by States Parties.
