Editing International Criminal Court (section)

====Judicial Division====
{{Main|Judges of the International Criminal Court}}
The Judicial Divisions consist of the 18 judges of the Court, organized into three chambers—the Pre-Trial Chamber, Trial Chamber and Appeals Chamber — which carry out the judicial functions of the Court.<ref name="chambers">{{cite web |author=International Criminal Court |url=http://www.icc-cpi.int/organs/chambers.html |title=Chambers |access-date=21 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070718171951/http://www.icc-cpi.int/organs/chambers.html |archive-date=18 July 2007}}</ref> Judges are elected to the Court by the Assembly of States Parties.<ref name=chambers/> They serve nine-year terms and are not generally eligible for re-election.<ref name=chambers/> All judges must be nationals of states parties to the Rome Statute, and no two judges may be nationals of the same state.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 36}} They must be "persons of high moral character, impartiality and integrity who possess the qualifications required in their respective States for appointment to the highest judicial offices".<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 36}}

The Prosecutor or any person being investigated or prosecuted may request the disqualification of a judge from "any case in which his or her impartiality might reasonably be doubted on any ground".<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 41}} Any request for the disqualification of a judge from a particular case is decided by an absolute majority of the other judges.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 41}} Judges may be removed from office if "found to have committed serious misconduct or a serious breach of his or her duties" or is unable to exercise his or her functions.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 46}} The removal of a judge requires both a two-thirds majority of the other judges and a two-thirds majority of the states parties.<ref name="RomeStatute" />{{rp|article 46}}