The Founders: Four Pioneering Individuals Who Launched the First Modern-Era International Criminal Tribunals

Cambridge University Press, 3/15/2018
EAN 9781108424165, ISBN10: 1108424163

Hardcover, 180 pages, 23.6 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm
Language: English

The Balkan Wars, the Rwanda genocide, and the crimes against humanity in Cambodia and Sierra Leone spurred the creation of international criminal tribunals to bring the perpetrators of unimaginable atrocities to justice. When Richard Goldstone, David Crane, Robert Petit, and Luis Moreno-Ocampo received the call - each set out on a unique quest to build an international criminal tribunal and launch its first prosecutions. Never before have the founding International Prosecutors told the behind-the-scenes stories of their historic journey. With no blueprint and little precedent, each was a path-breaker. This book contains the first-hand accounts of the challenges they faced, the obstacles they overcame, and the successes they achieved in obtaining justice for millions of victims.

Foreword Kofi Annan
Part I. Putting it All in Context
Introduction Hans Corell
1. International criminal justice
the journey from politics to law Leila Nadya Sadat
2. The cornerstone
Robert H. Jackson and the Nuremberg tribunal Michael Scharf
3. The Balkan investigation William Schabas
Part II. The Founders
4. The international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda Richard Goldstone
5. The Special Court for Sierra Leone David M. Crane
6. The International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo
7. Extraordinary chambers in the courts of Cambodia Robert Petit
Part III. The 'Take Aways'
8. Closing perspectives David Scheffer.