The New Histories of International Criminal Law
Retrials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23791644 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Immi Tallgren (Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Helsinki), Thomas Skouteris (Associate Professor of Law, The American University in Cairo) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | New Histories of International Criminal Law (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780198829638.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4246560266 |
| ISBN | 9780198829638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Seventy years after Nuremberg and Tokyo, and twenty years after the Rome Conference, international criminal law seems to have developed a ‘Whig’ historiography of its own. This historiography at times creates a mythological life of past law and its institutions and actors, and on which—in the absence of a glorious present to laud—hopes for a shiny new future are built. This volume is boldly calling for a retrial of this historiographical tradition, in fact many of them: Retrials. Carefully curated, and with contributions by leading scholars, this book 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. The 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.
Art · Criminal law · Criminology · Hegemony · Historiography · Ideology · Literature · Mythology · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |