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Doing Justice to History: Confronting the Past in International Criminal Courts
This book examines how historical narratives of mass atrocites are constructed and contested within international criminal courts. In particular, it looks into the important question of what tends to be foregrounded, and what tends to be excluded, in these narratives.
Author(s) | By Barrie Sander (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, University of Leiden). |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 384 |
Published in | United Kingdom |
Published | 9 Mar 2021 |
Availability | Available |
This book examines how historical narratives of mass atrocites are constructed and contested within international criminal courts. In particular, it looks into the important question of what tends to be foregrounded, and what tends to be excluded, in these narratives.
1: Introduction 2: The Struggle for Historical Justice 3: The Prosecutorial Targets Question 4: The Crime Question 5: The Culpability Question 6: Beyond the Purview of International Criminal Judgments 7: Historical Narrative Pluralism Within and Bey
Barrie Sander is Assistant Professor of International Justice at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University. He has written extensively in the field of international criminal law, as well as on governance challenges at the intersect