| Description |
xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 9.Making ICL history: on the need to move beyond pre-fab critiques of ICL / Grietje Baars -- pt. IV The visible and the invisible in international criminal law -- 10.International criminal law and individualism: an African perspective / Christopher Gevers -- 11.An arresting event: assassination within the purview of international criminal law / Michelle Burgis-Kasthala -- 12.The market and marketing culture of international criminal law / Christine Schwobel |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I Critique as an agenda -- 1.International criminal justice: a critical research agenda / Frederic Megret -- 2.Critical orientations: a critique of international criminal court practice / Sara Kendall -- 3.Who are ̀we' in international criminal law? On critics and membership / Immi Tallgren -- 4.Critique, complicity and I / Michelle Farrell -- pt. II The politics of international criminal law -- 5.Unveiling (and veiling) politics in international criminal trials / Tor Krever -- 6.Reading the political: jurisdiction and legality at the Lebanon tribunal / Heidi Matthews -- pt. III International criminal legal histories revisited -- 7.Linear law: the history of international criminal law / Gerry Simpson -- 8.Silences in international criminal legal histories and the construction of the victim subject of international criminal law: the nineteenth-century slave trading trial of Joseph Peters / Emily Haslam -- |
| Summary |
"Drawing on the critical legal tradition, the collection of international scholars gathered in this volume analyse the complicities and limitations of International Criminal Law. ICL has recently experienced a significant surge in scholarship and public debate; individual criminal accountability is firmly entrenched in both international law and the international consciousness as a necessary mechanism of responsibility. Critical Approaches to International Criminal Law - An Introduction shifts the debate towards that which has so far been missing from the mainstream discussion: the possible injustices, exclusions, and biases of ICL. This collection of essays is the first dedicated to the topic of critical approaches to international criminal law. It will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of international criminal law, international law, international legal theory, criminal law, and criminology"-- |
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"This collection of essays is the first dedicated to the topic of critical approaches to international criminal law. This field has recently experienced a significant surge in scholarship, in institutions, and in public debate. Individual criminal accountability is firmly entrenched in both international law and the international consciousness as a necessary mechanism of responsibility. Yet international criminal law as a field has is largely unchecked and unquestioned. The speed at which international tribunals, such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, or the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and of course the permanent International Criminal Court, were established has left little time to ponder the assumptions which inform international criminal justice as it is currently understood. A more considered interrogation this field is, then, overdue. And, including papers from an international range of experts in this area, this book critically examines the central tenets of international criminal law: its limitations, as well as its complicities"-- |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
International criminal law.
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| Author |
Schwöbel, Christine E. J., author, editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2013048745 |
| ISBN |
0415727049 (hardback) |
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9780415727044 (hardback) |
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