C/L/52. Discuss whether the effectiveness of the International Criminal Court has been minimised by the fact that powerful states did not ratify it. Include jurisdictional competence of the International Criminal Court in your answer.

In this work the author argues that there are many aspects found in the actual Rome Statute itself that minimise the effect of the International Criminal Court. This argument is supported by detailed analysis of relevant Statutory provisions. The author also argues, using US as an example, that it does not really affect the ICC as such, as there had been a lot of amendments introduced which are not really affected by the legislations introduced by the US to block the effective working of the ICC on the territory of the US.