Paths to International Justice
Social and Legal Perspectives
Published on 18. October 2007
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-521-88263-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume focuses on the everyday social relationships through which international justice is produced. Using case studies from the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Women's Convention Committee and elsewhere, it explores international justice as a process that takes place at the intersection of the often contradictory practices of applicants, lawyers, bureaucrats, victims, accused and others. With a sensitivity to broader institutional and political inequalities, the contributors ask how and why international justice is mobilised, understood and abandoned by concrete social actors, and to what effect. An attention to the different voices that feed into international justice is essential if we are to understand its potentials and limitations in the midst of social conflict or full blown political violence.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
622 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-88263-7 (9780521882637)
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Persons
Marie-Benedicte Dembour is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Sussex Law School, University of Sussex. Tobias Kelly is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.
Content
1. Introduction - the social lives of international justice Tobias Kelly and Marie-Benedicte Dembour; Part I. Paths...: 2. The success of failure? Minority supervision at the League of Nations Jane K. Cowan; 3. Law, civil society and contested justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda Emily Haslam; 4. Transparent broadcast? The reception of Milo?evic's trial in Serbia Jelena To?ic; Part II. ...to International...: 5. The limits of international justice at the European Court of Human Rights: between legal cosmopolitanism and 'a society of states' Basak Cali; 6. Global justice, local controversies: the International Criminal Court and the sovereignty of victims Kamari Maxine Clarke; 7. Human Rights Law as a path to International Justice: the case of the women's convention Sally Engle Merry; Part III. ...Justice: 8. The house of ghosts: post-socialist property restitution and the European Court's rendition of human rights in Brumarescu v. Romania Filippo M. Zerilli and Marie-Benedicte Dembour; 9. Entwined paths to justice: the inter-American human rights system and the Peruvian Truth Commission Lisa J. Laplante; 10. Same old story? Gypsy understandings of the injustices of non-Gypsy justice Sal Buckler.