OUVRAGE : N. Hayashi, C.M. Bailliet (eds.), The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals

Nobuo HAYASHI, Cecilia M. BAILLIET

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction, Nobuo Hayashi, Cecilia M. Bailliet, Joanna Nicholson

PART I. THEORIES AND PERSPECTIVES

1. Larry May, Shannon Fyfe, The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals
2. Silje Aambø Langvatn, Theresa Squatrito, Conceptualising and Measuring the Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals
3. Sergey Vasiliev, Between International Criminal Justice and Injustice: Theorising Legitimacy
4. Asad Kiyani, Legitimacy, Legality, and the Possibility of a Pluralist International Criminal Law
5. Athanasios Chouliaras, The Legitimacy and Effectiveness of International Criminal Tribunals: A Criminal Policy Perspective

PART II. NORMS AND OBJECTIVES

6 Rogier Bartels, Legitimacy and ICC Jurisdiction Following Security Council Referrals: Conduct on the Territory of Non-Party States and the Legality Principle
7. Nobuo Hayashi, Is the Yugoslav Tribunal Guilty of Hyper-Humanising International Humanitarian Law?
8. Jakob V.H. Holtermann, ‘One of the Challenges that can Plausibly be Raised Against Them’? On the Role of Truth in Debates about the Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals
9. Timothy William Waters, Hidden Legitimacy: Crafting Judicial Narratives in the Shadow of Secrecy at a War Crimes Tribunal – A Speculation

PART III. COMPLEMENTARITY AND REGIONALISM

10. Ignaz Stegmiller, Positive Complementarity and Legitimacy – Is the International Criminal Court Shifting from Judicial Restraint Towards Interventionism?
11. Dorothy Makaza, African Supranational Criminal Jurisdiction: One Step Towards Ending Impunity or Two Steps Backwards for International Criminal Justice?
12. Martin Wählisch, LegitimacyDefectsandLegalFlawsoftheSpecialTribunal for Lebanon: Dilemmas of the ‘Peace Through Justice’ Theorem

PART IV. PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDINGS

13. Damien Rogers, Prosecutors’ Opening Statements: The Rhetoric of Law, Politics, and Silent War
14. Barbora Hola, Jessica Kelder, Joris Van Wijk, Effectiveness of International Criminal Tribunals: Empirical Assessment of Rehabilitation as Sentencing Goal
15. Stephen Smith Cody, Procedural Justice, Legitimacy, and Victim Participation in Uganda

PART V STATES AND NGOs

16. Victor Peskin, Things Fall Apart: Battles of Legitimation and the Politics of Noncompliance and African Sovereignty from the Rwanda Tribunal to the ICC
17. Mistale Taylor, Financing Lady Justice: How the Funding Systems of Ad Hoc Tribunals Could Lend Themselves to the Possibility of Judicial Bias
18. Kjersti Lohne, Global Civil Society, the ICC, and Legitimacy in International Criminal Justice

Index

Nobuo HAYASHI, Cecilia M. BAILLIET (eds.), The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017 (524 pp.)