Présentation de l'éditeur
The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths. This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers with a very clear mandate in mind: to re-evaluate ('retry') the dominant historiographical tradition in the field of international criminal law.
Carefully curated, and with contributions by leading scholars, The New Histories of International Criminal Law pursues three research objectives: to bring to the fore the structure and function of contemporary histories of international criminal law, to take issue with the consequences of these histories, and to call for their demystification. The essays discern several registers on which the received historiographical tradition must be retried: tropology; inclusions/exclusions; gender; race; representations of the victim and the perpetrator; history and memory; ideology and master narratives; international criminal law and hegemonic theories; and more.
This book intervenes critically in the fields of international criminal law and international legal history by bringing in new voices and fresh approaches. Taken as a whole, it provides a rich account of the dilemmas, conundrums, and possibilities entailed in writing histories of international criminal law beyond, against, or in the shadow of the master narrative.
Contributors: Kamari Clarke, Lawrence Douglas, Mark Drumbl, Franziska Exeler, Christopher Gevers, Emily Haslam, Martti Koskenniemi, Heidi Matthews, Frederic Megret, Vasuki Nesiah, Aleksi Peltonen, Gerry Simpson, Thomas Skouteris, Immi Tallgren
Sommaire
Foreword, Martti Koskenniemi
1: Editors Introduction, Immi Tallgren and Thomas Skouteris
2: Unprecedents, Gerry Simpson
3: Founding Moments and Founding Fathers: Shaping Publics through the Sentimentalization of History Narratives, Kamari Maxine Clarke
4: From the Sentimental Story of the State to the Verbrecherstaat, Or, the Rise of the Atrocity Paradigm, Lawrence Douglas
5: International Criminal Justice History Writing as Anachronism: The Past that Did Not Lead to the Present, Frédéric Mégret
6: Redeeming Rape: Berlin 1945 and the Making of Modern International Criminal Law, Heidi Matthews
7: Voglio una donna!: On Rewriting the History of International Criminal Justice with the Help of Women Who Perpetrated International Crimes, Immi Tallgren
8: Writing More Inclusive Histories of International Criminal Law: Lessons from the Slave Trade and Slavery, Emily Haslam
9: The Africa Blue Books at Versailles: The First World War, Narrative, and Unthinkable Histories of International Criminal Law, Christopher Gevers
10: Crimes Against Humanity: Racialized Subjects and Deracialized Histories , Vasuki Nesiah
11: Nazi Atrocities, International Criminal Law, and Soviet War Crimes Trials: The Soviet Union and the Global Moment of Post-Second World War Justice, Franziska Exeler
12: Theodor Meron and the Humanization of International Law, Aleksi Peltonen
13: Histories of the Jewish Collaborator: Exile, Not Guilt, Mark Drumbl
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