Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Epigraph; Preface and Acknowledgments; Figures and Tables; Glossary; 1 Assessing Court Histories of Mass Crimes; 2 What Does International Actually Mean for International Criminal Trials?; 3 Contrasting Evidence: International and Common Law Approaches to Expert Testimony; 4 Does History Have Any Legal Relevance in International Criminal Trials?; 5 From Monumental History to Microhistories; 6 Exoneration and Mitigation in Defense Histories; 7 Misjudging Rwandan Society and History at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
8 Permanent Justice: The International Criminal Court9 Conclusion: New Directions in International Criminal Trials; Appendix: Methodology and the Survey Instrument; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Uses empirical research on three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom