The President on Trial Prosecuting Hissène Habré

by Weill, Sharon; Thuy Seelinger, Kim; Carlson, Kerstin Bree

• ISBN13: 9780198858621
• ISBN10: 0198858620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-07-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Table of Contents

Foreword, Denis Mukwege, 2018 Nobel Peace Prize Co-recipient
Introduction
Part I. The Trial as Told by its Actors
Editors' Introduction
A. Early Prosecution Attempts (1982-2012)
1. The 'Archives of Terror', Olivier Bercault
2. The Making of Chad's Truth Commission, Judge Abakar Mahamat Hassan
3. Documenting Crimes and Organizing Victims in Chad, Souleymane Guengueng
4. Tenacity, Perseverance, and Imagination in the 'Private International Prosecution' of Hiss?ne Habr?, Reed Brody
5. Defending Habr? in Senegal During the Early Years, H?lene Ciss?
6. The Belgian Investigation of the Habr? Regime, Excerpt of EAC trial testimony of Daniel Fransen, Belgian Investigating Judge
7. In His Own Words: An Interview with Hiss?ne Habr?, Excerpted interview from La Gazette, Dakar, 2011
B. Establishing the Court
8. Creating the EAC in Senegal: Perspectives from the African Union, Ben Kioko
9. Arresting Habr?, Marcel Mendy
10. Investigations in Senegal and Chad: Cooperation and Challenges, Judge Jean Kand?
11. Managing the EAC, Amadou Mokhtar Seck
12. Professionalizing a Political Trial: A Clerk's Perspective, Abouly Ba
C. The Trial
13. Prosecuting International Crimes in Senegal, Mbacke Fall
14. Defending Habr?, Mounir Ballal
15. From Victim to Witness and the Challenges of Sexual Violence Testimony, Jacqueline Moudeina
16. Supporting Victims at Trial: Civil Parties' Perspective, Alain Werner and Emmanuelle Marchand
17. Can we be friends? Offering an Amicus Curiae Brief to the EAC, Kim Thuy Seelinger, Naomi Fenwick, Khaled Alrabe
18. The Habr? Trial Judgement: A Summary of the First Instance Judgements of the EAC, Elise Le Gall
19. The Habr? Appeals Decision: A Summary of the Appeal Decision of the EAC, Elise Le Gall
20. Reflections on the Habr? Appeals Decision, Judge Ouagadeye Wafi
21. The Real Fight Begins; Victims Struggle for an Effective Right to Reparation, Ga?lle Carayon and Jeanne Sulzer
D. Beyond the Courtroom
22. A Donor's Perspective, Sarah Valentina Fall
23. Outreach for the EAC: An Extraordinary Experience, Franck Petit
24. Covering Habr?: The Diary of a Local Journalist, Ngoundji Dieng
25. Prosecutions in Chad, Henri Thulliez
26. Academia as Partner in the Habr? Trial, ?rick Sullivan and Fannie Lafontaine
Part II. Reflections on the Significance of the Habr? Case and Beyond
Editors' Introduction
A. Portraits, Positionality, Paradigms
27. Africa Against Global Justice? Stakes for Building a Political Sociology on the Futures of International Criminal Justice, Sara Dezalay
28. The Habr? trial and the Malabo Protocol: An Emerging African Criminal Justice?, Ndeye Amy Ndiaye
29. Expertise in the Bench? The Dis-Embeddedness of International Criminal Justice, Julien Seroussi
30. Hybrid Justice and the Rights of the Defence: Existence at the Periphery, Dov Jacobs
B. Institutions, Norms, and Pillars
31. Hybrid: A Spectrum of Possibilities, Mark Kersten and Kirsten Ainley
32. "Civil Law" v. "Common Law" Criminal Procedure: The Key or the Lock for ICL Success, Leila Bourguiba
33. The ICJ's Senegal v. Belgium Judgment and the Obligation to Prosecute or Extradite Alleged Torturers: The Case of Al Bashir and the ICC, Manuel Ventura and Victor Baiesu
34. Victims as a Third Party at the ICCL Empowerment of Victims?, Liesbeth Zegveld
C. Capturing the Judicial Process: Actors and Dynamics
35. "We Will Not Go Away": The Participation of Victims in International Criminal Tribunals, Eric Stover and Stephen Cody
36. Reparations and the Habr? Trial in Context, Christophe Sperfeldt
37. Hybrid Courts and Amicus Curiae Briefing, Sarah Williams
38. "Sexualized Slavery" and Customary International Law, Patricia Sellers and Jocelyn Kestenbaum
39. Witness Protection, Nancy Combs
D. The Political and its Interaction: Captured Institutions?
40. Hiss?ne Habr?, the Little Bird on the Brance, and the Challenges of International Criminal Justice, Pierre Hazan
41. The ICC and Africa, Richard Goldstone
42. The 'Habr? Effect', Universal Jurisdiction and Courts in Africa, Mia Swart
43. Main Challenges and the Future of International Criminal Law, William Schabas