Justice in the Balkans
Subtitle: prosecuting war crimes in the Hague Tribunal
By: John Hagan.
Series: Chicago series in law and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991.; War crime trials -- Netherlands -- The Hague.; Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities.
Description: "Called a fig leaf for inaction by many at its inception, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has surprised its critics by growing from an unfunded U.N. Security Council resolution to an institution with more than 1,000 employees and a $200 million annual budget. With Stobodan Milosevic now on trial and more than forty fellow indictees currently detained, the success of the Hague tribunal has forced many to reconsider the prospects of international justice. John Hagan's Justice in the Balkans is a powerful firsthand look at the inner workings of the tribunal as it has moved from an experimental organization initially viewed as irrelevant to the first truly effective international court since Nuremberg." "Justice in the Balkans brilliantly shows how an international social movement for human rights in the Balkans was transformed into a pathbreaking legal institution and a new transnational legal field. The Hague tribunal becomes, in Hagan's work, a stellar example of how individuals working with collective purpose can make a profound difference."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-266) and index.
Table of contents: title: From Nuremberg; title: Experts on atrocity; title: The virtual Tribunal; title: The real-time Tribunal; title: The Srebrenica ghost team; title: The Foca rape case; title: Courting contempt.