Full Description
The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' historical truths. This innovative edited collection brings together some of the world's leading international lawyers with a very clear mandate in mind: to re-evaluate ('retry') the dominant historiographical tradition in the field of international criminal law.
Carefully curated, and with contributions by leading scholars, The New Histories of International Criminal Law pursues three research objectives: to bring to the fore the structure and function of contemporary histories of international criminal law, to take issue with the consequences of these histories, and to call for their demystification. The essays discern several registers on which the received historiographical tradition must be retried: tropology; inclusions/exclusions; gender; race; representations of the victim and the perpetrator; history and memory; ideology and master narratives; international criminal law and hegemonic theories; and more.
This book intervenes critically in the fields of international criminal law and international legal history by bringing in new voices and fresh approaches. Taken as a whole, it provides a rich account of the dilemmas, conundrums, and possibilities entailed in writing histories of international criminal law beyond, against, or in the shadow of the master narrative.
Contents
ForewordMartti Koskenniemi:
List of Contributors
1: Immi Tallgren and Thomas Skouteris: Editors Introduction
2: Gerry Simpson: Unprecedents
3: Founding Moments and Founding Fathers: Shaping Publics through
the Sentimentalization of History NarrativesKamari Maxine Clarke:
4: From the Sentimental Story of the State to the Verbrecherstaat, Or,
the Rise of the Atrocity ParadigmLawrence Douglas:
5: International Criminal Justice History Writing as Anachronism:
The Past that Did Not Lead to the PresentFrédéric Mégret:
6: Redeeming Rape: Berlin 1945 and the Making of Modern
International Criminal LawHeidi Matthews:
7: Voglio una donna!: On Rewriting the History of International
Criminal Justice with the Help of Women Who Perpetrated
International CrimesImmi Tallgren:
8: Writing More Inclusive Histories of International Criminal
Law: Lessons from the Slave Trade and SlaveryEmily Haslam:
9: The Africa Blue Books at Versailles: The First World War, Narrative,
and Unthinkable Histories of International Criminal LawChristopher Gevers:
10: Crimes Against Humanity: Racialized Subjects and
Deracialized HistoriesVasuki Nesiah:
11: Nazi Atrocities, International Criminal Law, and Soviet War
Crimes Trials: The Soviet Union and the Global Moment
of Post-Second World War JusticeFranziska Exeler:
12: Aleksi Peltonen: Theodor Meron and the Humanization of International Law
13: Mark Drumbl: Histories of the Jewish Collaborator: Exile, Not Guilt
Index
