Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives

by Edited by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour , Tobias Kelly

• ISBN13: 9780521709200
• ISBN10: 0521709202
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume focuses on the everyday social relationships through which international justice is produced. Using case studies from the International Criminal Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the UN Women's Convention Committee and elsewhere, it explores international justice as a process that takes place at the intersection of the often contradictory practices of applicants, lawyers, bureaucrats, victims, accused and others. With a sensitivity to broader institutional and political inequalities, the contributors ask how and why international justice is mobilised, understood and abandoned by concrete social actors, and to what effect. An attention to the different voices that feed into international justice is essential if we are to understand its potentials and limitations in the midst of social conflict or full blown political violence.

Author Biography

Marie-Benedicte Dembour is Professor of Law and Anthropology at the Sussex Law School, University of Sussex Tobias Kelly is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xiv
Contributors	p. xv
List of abbreviations	p. xix
Introduction: the social lives of international justice	p. 1
Paths ...
The success of failure? Minority supervision at the League of Nations	p. 29
Law, civil society and contested justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	p. 57
Transparent broadcast? The reception of Milosevic's trial in Serbia	p. 83
... to International ...
The limits of international justice at the European Court of Human Rights: between legal cosmopolitanism and 'a society of states'	p. 111
Global justice, local controversies: the International Criminal Court and the sovereignty of victims	p. 134
Human rights law as a path to international justice: the case of the Women's Convention	p. 161
... Justice
The house of ghosts: post-socialist property restitution and the European Court's rendition of human rights in Brumarescu v. Romania	p. 189
Entwined paths to justice: the inter-American human rights system and the Peruvian Truth Commission	p. 216
Same old story? Gypsy understandings of the injustices of non-Gypsy justice	p. 243
Index	p. 262
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