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Genocide never sleeps: living law at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda

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posted on 2023-06-09, 15:04 authored by Nigel Eltringham
Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genocide Never Sleeps, based on ethnographic research at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), provides an alternative account, describing a messy, flawed human process in which legal practitioners faced with novel challenges sought to reconfigure long-standing habits and opinions while maintaining a commitment to 'justice'. From the challenges of simultaneous translation to collaborating with colleagues from different legal traditions, legal practitioners were forced to scrutinise that which normally remains assumed in domestic law. By providing an account of this process, Genocide Never Sleeps not only provides a unique insight into the exceptional nature of the ad hoc, improvised ICTR and the day-to-day practice of international criminal justice, but also holds up for fresh inspection much that is naturalised and assumed in unexceptional, domestic legal processes.

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  • Published

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Pages

234.0

Place of publication

Cambridge

ISBN

9781108485593

Series

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

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  • Anthropology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-12-11

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