The edge of law -- Producing the edge of law -- Making a court -- Court materiality -- Politics at the edge of law -- Public outreach -- Law and citizenship -- Contesting the edge of law -- Rules of law -- Entrance strategies -- Conclusion
Summary
The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using the example of the establishment of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey argues that legal processes constantly demarcate a line of inclusion and exclusion: materially, territorially and corporally. In contrast to accounts that have focused on the judicial outcomes of these transitional justice efforts, The Edge of Law draws on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina to focus on the social and political consequences of the trials, tracing the fraught mechanisms that have been used by international and local political elites to convey their legitimacy. This book will be of interest to socio-legal and geographical scholars working in the fields of transitional justice, legal systems, critical geopolitics and criminology
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 20, 2019)
