A new volume on the International Criminal Court (ICC), co-edited by Kent Law School lecturer Dr Sara Kendall and published by Cambridge University Press, was launched at an event at New York Law School this week.
The launch of Contested Justice: the Politics and Practice of International Criminal Court Interventions was hosted by Professor Ruti Teitel, and was co-sponsored by the New York Law School’s Institute for Global Law, Justice and Policy as well as the American Society of International Law’s Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group.
The event featured short presentations by Dr Kendall, her co-editor Dr Christian De Vos of the Open Society Foundations, and Dr Peter Dixon of the United Nations, one of the volume’s contributors. A panel discussed the role of the ICC as a form of global governance, current cases before the Court, and the ways in which it has shaped contemporary discourse concerning post-conflict accountability. Participants included members of the Transitional Justice network, New York based legal academics, advocates working for non-governmental organisations, and former ICC staff members.
The collection is the first of its kind to address the in-country work of this international legal institution in such breadth and depth, and it considers key themes such as transitional justice, interactions between international and domestic legal systems, and the role of the ICC in addressing conflict-affected communities. It concludes with a chapter by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture that reflects on the relationship between the ICC and contemporary peace processes.
The book is available through Open Access via the Cambridge website as a downloadable PDF: http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9781139924528.