Sunday, December 9, 2007

Dembour & Kelly: Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives

Marie-Bénédicte Dembour (Univ. of Sussex - Law) & Tobias Kelly (Univ. of Edinburgh - Social Anthropology) have published Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge Univ. Press 2007). Here's the abstract:
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.
Contents include:
  • Tobias Kelly & Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Introduction - the social lives of international justice
  • Jane K. Cowan, The success of failure? Minority supervision at the League of Nations
  • Emily Haslam, Law, civil society and contested justice at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • Jelena Tošic, Transparent broadcast? The reception of Miloševic's trial in Serbia
  • Basak Çali, The limits of international justice at the European Court of Human Rights: between legal cosmopolitanism and 'a society of states'
  • Kamari Maxine Clarke, Global justice, local controversies: the International Criminal Court and the sovereignty of victims
  • Sally Engle Merry, Human Rights Law as a path to International Justice: the case of the women's convention
  • Filippo M. Zerilli & Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, The house of ghosts: post-socialist property restitution and the European Court's rendition of human rights in Brumarescu v. Romania
  • Lisa J. Laplante, Entwined paths to justice: the inter-American human rights system and the Peruvian Truth Commission
  • Sal Buckler, Same old story? Gypsy understandings of the injustices of non-Gypsy justice