This volume considers how, based on the examination of cases pertaining to transitional justice settings that resort to local interpretations of crimes against humanity jurisprudence, fragmentation of international law and circumscribed applications of universal jurisdiction are necessary aspects of the grand enterprise to overcome the impasse of the tainted legacy of international criminal law in the Global South. If we are to proceed with adjudication of the most egregious and heinous crimes involving state criminality without facing the charge of neo-colonialist plotting, then we must reckon with localised and domesticated interpretations of international criminal law, rather than pursuing strict forms of legislative dictation of international criminal law.
This book brings together jurisprudential debates on international criminal law, international law scholarship on the limits of state sovereignty, and applied political philosophy concerning responsibility and accountability in the context of mass political crimes and state criminality. It offers a compelling view of legal reasoning concerning accountability regimes in the Global South.
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This book brings together jurisprudential debates on international criminal law, international law scholarship on the limits of state sovereignty, and applied political philosophy concerning responsibility and accountability in the context of mass political crimes and state criminality.
It offers a compelling view of legal reasoning concerning accountability regimes in the Global South. No other study addresses questions of ethical dimensions of mass crimes and accountability for state criminality.
Frontispiece: Tree of Life, by the author
Introduction
Chapter I. Topographies of Universal Jurisdiction in International Law, Legal
Pluralism and the Curious Case of the International Criminal Court
Chapter II: Universal Jurisdiction and Genealogies of International Criminal
Law
Chapter III. Crimes Against Humanity Jurisprudence in International Law and
The Conundrum of Jurisdictional Certainty
Chapter IV. Mea culpa, Sua culpa, Tua Maxima Culpa: Collective
Responsibility, Societal WrongDoing and Legal Judgment
Chapter V. Through the Looking Glass: Hybrid Courts and International
Criminal Law in the Global Sout
In Lieu of Conclusion: Deliverance of Justice in International Criminal Law
and the Role of Political Judgment as Purposive Action
Nergis Canefe is Professor of Politics, Public Policy and Law, York University, Canada.
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