With the ad hoc tribunals completing their mandates and the International Criminal Court under significant pressure, today's international criminal jurisdictions are at a critical juncture. Their legitimacy cannot be taken for granted. This multidisciplinary volume investigates key issues pertaining to legitimacy: criminal accountability, normative development, truth-discovery, complementarity, regionalism, and judicial cooperation. The volume sheds new light on previously unexplored areas, including the significance of redacted judgements, prosecutors' opening statements, rehabilitative processes of international convicts, victim expectations, court financing, and NGO activism. The book's original contributions will appeal to researchers, practitioners, advocates, and students of international criminal justice, accountability for war crimes and the rule of law.

This multidisciplinary volume investigates the challenge of attaining legitimacy by international criminal courts and tribunals.

About the Author
Nobuo Hayashi is a researcher at PluriCourts at Universitetet i Oslo. He is a specialist in international humanitarian law, international criminal law, and moral philosophy. Cecilia M. Bailliet is Professor and Director of the Masters Program in Public International Law at Universitetet i Oslo. She has published widely within the areas of international law, human rights, refugee law, counter-terrorism and peace. She is currently on the Steering Committee of PluriCourts research project where she is Coordinator of the International Criminal Law Pillar.


Book Information
ISBN 9781316509401
Author Nobuo Hayashi
Format Paperback
Page Count 522
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 790g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 30mm