Richard Gaskins (Massachusetts Brandeis University)

The Congo Trials in the International Criminal Court

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fresh introduction to the ICC through immersion in the first three trials, where legal rules met the surprising complexities of central African armed conflicts. Now including an updated postscript, it explores legal dynamics in broad engagement with cultural difference, moral ideals, and political realities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 718g
• ISBN-13: 9781009208772
• ISBN-10: 1009208772
• Artikelnr.: 64045249

Autorenporträt

Richard Gaskins is Joseph M. Proskauer Professor of Law and Social Welfare at Brandeis University. He spent the past decade designing and directing student exchange programs in The Hague, which combined academic theory with hands-on practicums in courts and NGO's. He holds a Ph.D. (Philosophy) and J.D. from Yale University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A laboratory for global justice
Part II. Testing a new court: 1. Spreading justice to distant conflicts
2. Balancing politics, morality, and culture
Part III. Back in Ituri: 3. Ituri in the web of chaos: the macro view
4. Structures of local conflict: the micro view
Part IV. The bridge to the Hague: 5. Battling impunity in Ituri
6. ICC structures, dynamics, tensions
Part V. The Congo trials: 7. The trial of Thomas Lubanga
8. The trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo
9. The trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba
Part VI. Observations
Postscript
Index.