The prosecution plays a crucial part in any international war crimes trial, but its role is rarely analysed. This book will assess the work of the prosecutor in a dozen international criminal courts and tribunals, setting out the applicable rules and analysing his or her independence, accountability, and political impact.

This book shines light on the role of 'de facto international prosecutors' as an emerging phenomenon.

This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution’s opening statement before an international criminal tribunal. Opening statements are considered to be largely irrelevant to the official legal proceedings but are simultaneously deployed to frame important historical events. They are widely cited in international media as well as academic texts; yet have been ignored by legal scholars as objects of study in their own right. This book aims to remedy this neglect, by analysing the narrative that is articulated in the opening statements of different prosecutors at different tribunals in different times. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and looks at the meaning of the opening narrative beyond its function in the legal process in a strict sense, discussing the ways in which the trial is situated in time and space and how it portrays the main characters. It shows how perpetrators and victims, places and histories, are juridified in a narrative that, whilst purporting to legitimise the trial, the tribunal and international criminal law itself, is beset with tensions and contradictions. Providing an original perspective on the operation of international criminal law, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in this area, as well as those with relevant interests in International/Transnational Law more generally, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Literature, Socio-Legal Studies, Law and Geography and International Relations.

In this book, Erik Luna and Marianne Wade examine the considerable powers of the American prosecutor and look abroad in order to learn valuable lessons from a transnational examination of prosecutorial authority. They explore parallels and distinctions in the processes available to and decisions made by prosecutors in the United States and Europe. Through the varied topics covered by the contributors on both sides of the Atlantic, they demonstrate how the enhanced role of the prosecutor represents a crossroads for criminal justice with weighty legal and socio-economic consequences.

Combining history, politics, and critical analysis, he revisits the killing fields of Cambodia, documents the three-month Hutu "machete genocide" of about 800,000 Tutsi villagers in Rwanda, and casts recent headlines from Kosovo in the light of these other conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.

The book is the first comprehensive treatment of the reasons why international organizations have engaged in territorial administration, from the League of Nations in Danzig during the inter-war period, to the UN in East Timor recently and Kosovo today. Moving beyond the fashionable and misleading use of terms like 'post-conflict reconstruction' and 'state-building' to describe the role of international territorial administration, this book engages in a complex analysis of the various purposes with which this activity has been associated, some of which - for example settling disputes over sovereignty - have nothing to do with perceived local incapacities for governance. The book goes beyond territorial administration by the UN, covering the conduct of this activity by international organizations generally, thereby analyzing lesser-known projects like the EU Administration in Mostar, 1994 - 6. It addresses instances of partial as well as plenary administration, such as the role of the Office of the High Representative in imposing legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1996. By revealing the complex and diverse range of objectives which international organizations have attempted to realize through territorial administration, and establishing the commonalities and differences between the administration projects in this respect, the book establishes the contours of an international policy institution, to rank alongside 'peacekeeping' and 'humanitarian intervention.' By doing so, it provides a framework through which some of the key questions relating to such projects, concerning legitimacy, authority and applicable law, can be addressed. It also reveals a secret history of international organizations throughout the 20th Century, complementing work on their role in managing relations between states by exposing their role within particular states and non-state territories, beyond the well-documented activity of peacekeeping by military forces.

This book focuses on four post-conflict situations in Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone and Cambodia. Recognized scholars and practitioners analyse if and how accountability for serious human rights violations is being enforced. Thus, the book is an interdisciplinary inquiry examining the nature of each of these conflicts and the legal framework established for addressing individual criminal responsibility. This methodology provides a combined reading of events, a deeper insight into the reasons for the urge for accountability for individual criminal responsibility. In addition, the book serves as a sourcebook containing an indexed compendium of relevant instruments relating to the new approaches of international criminal justice applied in the countries mentioned.