Paths to International Justice

Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte & Tobias Kelly, eds.

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Author
Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte & Tobias Kelly, eds.
Publish Date
200710
Subtitle
Social and Cultural Perspectives
Book Type
Paperback
Number of Pages
288
Publisher Name
54
ISBN-10
0521709202
ISBN-13
9780521709200
citemno
107193
Edition
1
SKU
9780521709200

Description

Product Description 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. Book Description This volume examines how international justice can take purchase despite social conflict and political violence. About the Author Marie-Bénédicte Dembour is a Senior Lecturer in Law at 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.