Law, Politics and the Limits of Prosecuting Mass Atrocity

Offers an entirely new way of comprehending the conduct of those whose job it is to prosecute the most serious of international crimes
Argues that law is a form of politics, and that both ICL enforcement and the politics of economic liberalisation are a means of waging politico-cultural war
Highlights the complicity between the production of scholarly knowledge in academia and the support for the international prosecutor's work

Autorentext

Damien Rogers is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Defence and Security Studies at Massey University, New Zealand.

Inhalt

1. Introduction .- 2. International Military Tribunals .- 3. Indictment of German and Japanese War Leaders .- 4. Opening Statements at Nuremberg and Tokyo .- 5. Ad-hoc International Criminal Tribunals .- 6. Indictment of Yugoslav and Rwandan Troublemakers .- 7. Opening Statements at The Hague and Arusha .- 8. International Criminal Court .- 9. New Generation of Prosecutors: Warrants, Summonses and Opening Statements .- 10. Conclusion.