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The Icty Trials And Transitional Justice In Former Yugoslavia, Natasa Kandic
The Icty Trials And Transitional Justice In Former Yugoslavia, Natasa Kandic
Cornell International Law Journal
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The Law And Politics Of Contemporary Transitional Justice, Ruti Teitel
The Law And Politics Of Contemporary Transitional Justice, Ruti Teitel
Cornell International Law Journal
In this article in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author continues a project of tracing the genealogy of "transitional justice" in an analysis of the trials of the two Presidents. The author argues that an intellectual genealogy of "transitional justice" is defined in terms of periods of political change, & the relation of legal development to distinct political phases in world history & various political purposes are contextualized in the history of responses to political conflict. Three historical phases of the genealogy place the trials in Phase III of transitional justice seeking responses associated with post-Cold …
Justice, Power, And The Realities Of Interdependence: Lessons From The Milosevic And Hussein Trials, Payam Akhavan
Justice, Power, And The Realities Of Interdependence: Lessons From The Milosevic And Hussein Trials, Payam Akhavan
Cornell International Law Journal
In this essay in the Symposium on Milosevic & Hussein on Trial, the author discusses issues of interdependence to argue that, although military power can eliminate threats in the short term, in an inextricably interdependent world long term peace can only be sustained by legitimacy. The author's personal experiences at a meeting on the "ethnic cleansing" in the Balkans prior to the creation of the International Criminal Tribunal on the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) are related to the success of "soft power" in judicial disguise, & the relationship between justice for others & political identity in liberal democracies. A historical narrative …