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The Right To A Fair Mistrial: A Criticism Of The Procedures At The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Kelly Isel Robreno
The Right To A Fair Mistrial: A Criticism Of The Procedures At The International Criminal Tribunal For The Former Yugoslavia, Kelly Isel Robreno
Kelly Isel Robreno
My note highlights the systematic procedural wrongs that persist at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The background begins with a discussion of the model for the tribunal, Nuremberg. It then reviews the turmoil that dominated the Balkan region and demonstrates the reasons that the U.N. was prompted to create the tribunal. The analysis pays close attention to the language that authorized the tribunal in comparison to the Nuremberg Charter. This section also presents several case studies from the region highlighting many of the systematic and procedural flaws that perpetuate so long after its founding (now almost 15 …