Genocide Never Sleeps

Genocide Never Sleeps Living Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda - Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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Publisher's Synopsis

Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genocide Never Sleeps, based on ethnographic research at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), provides an alternative account, describing a messy, flawed human process in which legal practitioners faced with novel challenges sought to reconfigure long-standing habits and opinions while maintaining a commitment to 'justice'. From the challenges of simultaneous translation to collaborating with colleagues from different legal traditions, legal practitioners were forced to scrutinise that which normally remains assumed in domestic law. By providing an account of this process, Genocide Never Sleeps not only provides a unique insight into the exceptional nature of the ad hoc, improvised ICTR and the day-to-day practice of international criminal justice, but also holds up for fresh inspection much that is naturalised and assumed in unexceptional, domestic legal processes.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781108485593
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 345.0251
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 234
Weight: 498g
Height: 230mm
Width: 158mm
Spine width: 16mm