The Rome Statute (rs) of the International Criminal Court (icc) failed to reach a fair degree of legal certainty for the role of victims, leaving the task of defining the scope of their participation to the Chambers. As result, the Court allowed victims to present and examine evidence on their initiative. However, no effort has been made, either at the icc or in the scholarship, to provide a justification for this modality of victims’ participation. This article posits that the icc’s approach to victims’ active role in the evidence-gathering process is key for expressivist purposes, which see victims as a crucial constituency of the trial, able to contributing to conveying disavowal of the atrocities committed, crafting historical records and reinforcing the respect for basic human rights. An expressivist foundation for this modality of victims’ participation has the potential to reinvigorate our understanding of the evidence-gathering process at the icc.

国际刑事法院（ICC）的罗马规约（rs）未能就受害人的作用达成相当程度的法律确定性，将界定其参与范围的任务留给了分庭。结果，法院允许受害者主动提出和审查证据。然而，无论是在国际刑事法院还是在奖学金方面，都没有做出任何努力来为这种受害者参与的方式提供理由。这篇文章假定ICC受害者在证据收集过程中发挥积极作用的方法是表达主义目的的关键，将受害者视为审判的重要组成部分，能够有助于传达对所犯暴行的否认，制作历史记录并加强对基本人权。这种受害者参与方式的表现主义基础有可能重振我们对国际刑事法院证据收集过程的理解。