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The Edge of Law - Alex Jeffrey

The Edge of Law

Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court

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Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-19984-2 (ISBN)
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This book explores the fraught process of establishing trials for war crimes following violent conflict, such as in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s. This process can be seen as inherently spatial: creating new concepts of inclusion and exclusion and new understandings of the appropriate division of territory.
The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using the example of the establishment of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey argues that legal processes constantly demarcate a line of inclusion and exclusion: materially, territorially and corporally. In contrast to accounts that have focused on the judicial outcomes of these transitional justice efforts, The Edge of Law draws on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina to focus on the social and political consequences of the trials, tracing the fraught mechanisms that have been used by international and local political elites to convey their legitimacy. This book will be of interest to socio-legal and geographical scholars working in the fields of transitional justice, legal systems, critical geopolitics and criminology.

Alex Jeffrey is a Reader in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Following work for a youth NGO in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey's scholarly work has examined the politics of state formation after violent conflict. He is author of over forty papers and chapters on the political and legal geographies of the state and published The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia (2013). He sits on the Editorial Board of Political Geography and the RGS-IBG Book Series.

1. The edge of law; Part I. Producing the Edge of Law: 2. Making a court; 3. Court materiality; Part II. Politics at the Edge of Law: 4. Public outreach; 5. Law and citizenship; Part III. Contesting the Edge of Law: 6. Rules of law; 7. Entrance strategies; 8. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Verfassungsrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-107-19984-0 / 1107199840
ISBN-13 978-1-107-19984-2 / 9781107199842
Zustand Neuware
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