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Writing history in international criminal trials /
"This book uses empirical research on three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011, ©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "This book uses empirical research on three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom"-- "Why do international criminal tribunals write histories of the origins and causes of armed conflicts? Richard Ashby Wilson conducted empirical research with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and expert witnesses in three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom. Historical testimony is now an integral part of international trials, with prosecutors and defense teams using background testimony to pursue decidedly legal objectives. Both use historical narratives to frame the alleged crimes and to articulate their side's theory of the case. In the Slobodan Milošević trial, the prosecution sought to demonstrate special intent to commit genocide by reference to a long-standing animus, nurtured within a nationalist mind-set. For their part, the defense calls historical witnesses to undermine charges of superior responsibility, and to mitigate the sentence by representing crimes as reprisals. Although legal ways of knowing are distinctive from those of history, the two are effectively combined in international trials in a way that challenges us to rethink the relationship between law and history"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139077873 1139077872 9781139080163 1139080164 9780511973505 0511973500 1139063332 9781139063333 1107215196 9781107215191 1283110989 9781283110983 9786613110985 6613110981 1139075616 9781139075619 1139069853 9781139069854 1139082442 9781139082440 |