ate to ensure that justice prevails over impunity (HWR, 1998, intro section, 2).
             The court will be set up in the Hague (Netherlands) and will have eighteen judges from an equal number of countries. All judges will be appointed to nine-year terms. There will also be a full-time prosecutor with authority to initiate cases on his own, even though the U.N. Security Council and other countries will have the right to suggest possible prosecutions on their own. It was agreed at the Rome Conference that the ICC would only deal with cases tried after the creation of the court. It will have an investigatory branch as well as a separate appellate court to hear the appeals of the verdicts. There are many standard judicial protections, which are found in the U.S. Constitution incorporated into the Rome Treaty. Within the ICC the maximum penalty will be life imprisonment, which will be served in those countries that agree that they are willing to incarcerate the guilty. There is a question of whether or not the ICC would int
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