ABSTRACT
This chapter explains Kochler, a member of the International Advisory Panel (IAP) of the International Movement for a Just World (JUST), an organization. He has written articles in JUST's monthly bulletin, the JUST Commentary, and spoken in meetings. On almost every major issue in international affairs in the last decades, he has had something incisive and insightful to say. He is acutely aware of the formidable obstacles the International Criminal Court (ICC) faces. He admits terms of legal philosophy to be questioned whether the creation of the ICC has brought about a sea change in the approach to the problem of universality and the enforcement of international criminal justice. He then draws one general conclusion from the conduct of the trial, which allow to formulate a general maxim applicable to judicial procedures in general: proper judicial procedure is simply impossible if political interests and intelligence services succeed in interfering in the actual conduct of a court.
