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Krever, Tor (2014) Dispensing global justice. New Left Review, 85 . pp. 67-97. ISSN 0028-6060.
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Abstract
The international criminal court is the newest would-be global institution to have been established by the big powers since 1945. [*] Its Statute, agreed at a conference in Rome in 1998, was ratified by the minimum necessary sixty states in 2002; the Court opened its doors in The Hague the following summer. The ICC raises both political questions—its relation to the major powers, above all the United States, and its function in world conflicts—and juridical ones. The history of international criminal law tends to be told as a teleological story of irreversible progress, in which the violence of cold state calculi gives way to a supra-political justice. Milestones along the way include the pre-1914 attempts to sanitize war between the European powers, when Swiss lawyers floated the idea of an international tribunal to back up the first Geneva and Hague Conventions, and the Versailles Treaty’s arraignment of the Kaiser for offences against ‘international morality and the sanctity of treaties’, never followed through. More salient have been the 1945–46 Nuremberg and Tokyo trials of selected German and Japanese officials; the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia, set up in 1993 by the UN Security Council to try individual Serbian leaders, and a much smaller number of Croatians and Bosniaks, for ‘crimes against humanity’; and the less celebrated International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, set up by the UNSC in 1995. At the end of this narrative stands the ICC, ‘the most dramatic marker yet in the long human struggle for accountability’. [1]
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | New Left Review | ||||
Publisher: | New Left Review Ltd. | ||||
ISSN: | 0028-6060 | ||||
Official Date: | January 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 85 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 67-97 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published |
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