The Trials of Richard Goldstone

Daniel Terris (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

398 Seiten

2018
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-9996-0 (ISBN)

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Tells the story of an extraordinary individual and the price he paid for his convictions. This book describes how Richard Goldstone, working as a judge in apartheid South Africa, helped to undermine this unjust system and later, at Nelson Mandela's request, led a commission that investigated cases of racial violence and intimidation.

In June 2009, Richard Goldstone was a global hero, honored by the MacArthur Foundation for its prize in international justice. Four months later, he was called a “quisling” and compared to some of the worst traitors in human history. Why? Because this champion of human rights and international law chose to apply his commitments to fairness and truth to his own community.

The Trials of Richard Goldstone tells the story of this extraordinary individual and the price he paid for his convictions. It describes how Goldstone, working as a judge in apartheid South Africa, helped to undermine this unjust system and later, at Nelson Mandela’s request, led a commission that investigated cases of racial violence and intimidation. It also considers the international renown he received as the chief United Nations prosecutor for war crimes committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the first tribunals to try political and military leaders on charges of genocide. Finally, it explores how Goldstone became a controversial figure in the wake of the Jewish jurist’s powerful, but flawed, investigation of Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza.

Richard Goldstone’s dramatic life story reveals that even in a world rife with prejudice, nationalism, and contempt for human rights, one courageous man can advance the cause of justice.

DANIEL TERRIS is dean of the Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. He is also director emeritus of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and a visiting professor of the humanities at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. He is the author of Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue in an American Corporation and coauthor of The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases.

Contents

Prologue          Icon and Pariah

1          Divisions

2          The Striver

3          Cracks in the Wall

4          Demonstrations

5          The Third Force

6          In the Footsteps of Robert Jackson

7          A Patchwork Court

8          Big Fish, Little Fish

9          The Paper Tiger

10        The Bargaining Chip

11        In the Dock

12        Rwanda

13        Globetrotter

14        Cast Lead

15        Gaza

16        The Goldstone Report

17        Outrage

18        Bar Mitzvah

19        Retraction

Epilogue          Legacies

Acknowledgments

Bibliographical Note

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	26 color photos in gallery insert
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-8135-9996-2 / 0813599962
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-9996-0 / 9780813599960
Zustand	Neuware