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Author Wilson, Richard Ashby

Title Writing History in International Criminal Trials : Judging History
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents 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
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Subject Crimes against humanity.
War crimes.
Prosecution.
Evidence, Documentary.
Political violence -- History
Civil war -- History
War -- History
Civil war
Crimes against humanity
Evidence, Documentary
Political violence
Prosecution
War
War crimes
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139082440
1139082442