The Sierra Leone Special Court and its legacy : the impact for Africa and international criminal law / edited by Charles Chernor Jalloh, University of Pittsburgh, School of Law.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jalloh, Charles, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Special Court for Sierra Leone.

International criminal courts--Sierra Leone.

International criminal courts.

International criminal courts--Netherlands.

Netherlands.

Sierra Leone.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvii, 784 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

The Sierra Leone Special Court & its Legacy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) is the third modern international criminal tribunal supported by the United Nations and the first to be situated where the crimes were committed. This timely, important and comprehensive book is the first to critically assess the impact and legacy of the SCSL for Africa and international criminal law. Contributors include leading scholars and respected practitioners with inside knowledge of the tribunal, who analyze cutting-edge and controversial issues with significant implications for international criminal law and transitional justice. These include joint criminal enterprise; forced marriage; enlisting and using child soldiers; attacks against United Nations peacekeepers; the tension between truth commissions and criminal trials in the first country to simultaneously have the two; and the questions of whether it is permissible under international law for states to unilaterally confer blanket amnesties to local perpetrators of universally condemned international crimes.

Contents:

Keynote address: The challenge of choice in the investigation and prosecution of international crimes in post-conflict Sierra Leone / Stephen J. Rapp

The expectations of the Sierra Leone Tribunal

Approach to individual criminal responsibility

Approach to substantive international crimes

Approach to challenging issues in international criminal law

Funding, process, and cooperation

Institutional innovations in the practice of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Special challenges facing the Sierra Leone Tribunal

The impact and legacy of the Sierra Leone Tribunal.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139248778

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.