Monday, January 16, 2023

Jeßberger, Steinl, & Mehta: International Criminal Law—A Counter-Hegemonic Project?

Florian Jeßberger
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Leonie Steinl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), & Kalika Mehta (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) have published International Criminal Law—A Counter-Hegemonic Project? (Asser Press 2022). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This book enquires into the counter-hegemonic capacity of international criminal justice. It highlights perspectives and themes that have thus far often been neglected in the scholarship on (critical approaches to) international criminal justice.

Can international criminal justice be viewed as a ‘counter-hegemonic’ project? And if so, under what conditions? In response to these questions, scholars and practitioners from the Global South and North reflect inter alia on the engagement with international criminal justice in the context of Ukraine, Palestine, and minorities in South-Asia while also highlighting the hegemonic tendencies built into the institutional structure of the International Criminal Court on the axes of gender and language.