The hidden histories of war crimes trials /
Provides a detailed analysis of a selection of under-explored domestic and international war crimes trials; Offers a global perspective, with analysis of war crimes trials that have taken place across European, African, and Australiasian countries, including the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court and the sp...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Provides a detailed analysis of a selection of under-explored domestic and international war crimes trials; Offers a global perspective, with analysis of war crimes trials that have taken place across European, African, and Australiasian countries, including the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court and the special military tribunal for the Armenian Genocide; Puts these trials in their historical context, exploring their significance to the countries they took place in. Several instances of war crimes trials are familiar to all scholars, but in order to advance understanding of the development of international criminal law, it is important to provide a full range of evidence from less-familiar trials. This book therefore provides an essential resource for a more comprehensive overview, uncovering and exploring some of the lesser-known war crimes trials that have taken place in a variety of contexts: international and domestic, northern and southern, historic and contemporary. It analyses these trials with a view to recognising institutional innovations, clarifying doctrinal debates, and identifying their general relevance to contemporary international criminal law. At the same time, the book recognises international criminal law's history of suppression or sublimation: What stories has the discipline refused to tell? What stories have been displaced by the ones it has told? Has international criminal law's framing or telling of these stories excluded other possibilities? And--perhaps most important of all--how can recovering the lost stories and imagining new narrative forms reconfigure the discipline? Many of the trials examined in this book have hardly ever before been discussed; others have been examined only in the most cursory manner. Indeed, until now, no volume has been dedicated to telling the story of these trials, that have yet to find a place in the international criminal law canon. Providing a detailed analysis of these trials, which took place in Europe, Africa, South America, and Australasia, in both historical and contemporary contexts, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the development of international criminal law.-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 463 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191751516 0191751510 0191653209 9780191653209 |