 Law, War & Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law
ISBN: 978-0-7456-3023-6
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240 pages
October 2007, Polity
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- Contents
- Preface: Law, War and Crime
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter One: Law’s Politics: War Crimes Trials and Political Trials
- 1. Concepts of the Political
- i. Deformed Legalism
- ii. Transcendent Legalism
- iii. Utopian Politics
- iv. Legalistic Politics
- 2. The Politics of “Politics” and “Law”
- Chapter Two: Law’s Place: Internationalism and Localism
- 1. The Hague or Baghdad? Trying Saddam
- 2. International Space/Local Place
- 3. Cosmopolitan Law?
- 4. Negotiating the International
- Chapter Three: Law’s Subjects: Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt
- 1. Men Not Abstract Entities
- 2. State Crime and Individual Responsibility
- 3. The Liability of Men and Things
- 4. Three Eichmanns
- Chapter Four: Law’s Promise: Punishment, Memory and Dissent
- 1. Teaching History
- 2. Proportion
- 3. Incompatibility
- 4. Legitimation
- 5. Discordant Notes
- i. Justice Arguments
- ii. History Arguments
- 6. Forgetting
- Chapter Five: Law’s Anxieties: Show Trials
- 1. The Antithesis of Legalism
- 2. Legality and Deformity
- i. Procedure
- ii. Ad Hocery
- iii.Conspiracy
- iv. Selection of Defendants
- 3. Objective Guilt and Subjective Innocence
- Chapter Six: Law’s Hegemony: The Juridification of War
- 1. Law and War
- 2. Juridification in General
- i. International Law and National Law
- ii. The Juridification of Politics
- 3. The Juridification of War
- Chapter Seven: Law’s Origins: Pirates
- 1. Infinite Justice
- 2. Enemies of Mankind
- 3. The Ambiguities of Piracy
- 4. Enemies of Empire
- Conclusion: Law’s Fate
