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  Writing History in International Criminal Trials: Judging History (Paperback) By (author) Richard Ashby Wilson

  

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  Short Description for Writing History in International Criminal TrialsUses empirical research on three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom.
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  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 31 March 2011
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages
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  • Categories: Human Rights | Law | International Law | Public International Law | International Humanitarian Law | Criminal Law & Procedure
  • ISBN 13: 9780521138314 ISBN 10: 0521138310
  • Sales rank: 395,134

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• Why 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 Milosevic 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.