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020 _a9780511973505 (ebook)
020 _z9780521198851 (hardback)
020 _z9780521138314 (paperback)
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_beng
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_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aKZ7145
_b.W55 2011
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100 1 _aWilson, Richard Ashby,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aWriting History in International Criminal Trials /
_cRichard Ashby Wilson.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2011.
300 _a1 online resource (272 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aWhy do international criminal tribunals write histories of the origins and causes of armed conflicts? Richard Ashby Wilson conducted research with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and expert witnesses in three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom. Historical testimony is now an integral part of international trials, with prosecutors and defense teams using background testimony to pursue decidedly legal objectives. In the Slobodan Milošević trial, the prosecution sought to demonstrate special intent to commit genocide by reference to a long-standing animus, nurtured within a nationalist mindset. For their part, the defense called historical witnesses to undermine charges of superior responsibility, and to mitigate the sentence by representing crimes as reprisals. Although legal ways of knowing are distinct from those of history, the two are effectively combined in international trials in a way that challenges us to rethink the relationship between law and history.
650 0 _aCrimes against humanity
650 0 _aWar crimes
650 0 _aProsecution
650 0 _aEvidence, Documentary
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521198851
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511973505
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c38544
_d38544