Victims' rights and advocacy at the International Criminal Court /
Funk, T. MarkusAuthor
North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorise and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of U.S. citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. This book demonstrates that extreme measures have been consistently embraced in politics, scholarship, and public opinion in a specific belief that 9/11 was the harbinger of a new order of terror.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
North American law has been transformed in ways unimaginable before 9/11. Laws now authorise and courts have condoned indefinite detention without charge on secret evidence, mass secret surveillance, and targeted killing of U.S. citizens, suggesting a shift in the cultural currency of a liberal form of legality to authoritarian legality. This book demonstrates that extreme measures have been consistently embraced in politics, scholarship, and public opinion in a specific belief that 9/11 was the harbinger of a new order of terror.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 12, 2015).
A legacy of abuse and suffering leads to the birth of the ICC -- Tracing the development of victims' rights under international law -- Primer on the ICC -- The Rome Statute's groundbreaking (and expansive) recognition of victims' rights -- Qualifying as legal counsel for victims -- Steps to formal recognition as a "victim" -- Preparing for complex group representation -- Understanding victims' interests and recognizing the importance of managing and guiding expectations -- Holding a pre-trial evidentiary hearing to establish the historic record -- Compiling a "victimization dossier" as a permanent historic record of abuse -- Pre-trial proceedings -- The main trial -- Summation and sentencing.
International Criminal Court
Victims of crimes
War victims