Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions

Mark A. Drumbl, Caroline Fournet (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

534 Seiten

2024
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-67794-4 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book explores how international criminal justice interacts with the human senses – sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch – when it comes to perceiving mass atrocity and thereafter holding perpetrators accountable.

This book unlocks the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of justice for massive human rights abuses. Twenty-nine expert authors examine the dynamics of the five human senses in how atrocity is perceived, remembered, and condemned. This book is chockful of images. It serves up remarkably diverse content. It treks around the globe: from Pacific war crimes trials in the aftermath of the Second World War to Holocaust proceedings in contemporary Germany, France, and Israel; from absurd show trials in Communist Czechoslovakia to international courtrooms in Arusha, Phnom Penh, and The Hague. Readers embark on a journey that transcends myriad dimensions, including photographic representations of grandfatherly old torturers in Argentina, narco-trafficking in Mexico, colonialisation in India, disinformation and misinformation pixelated in cyberspace, environmental degradation in Cambodia, militarism in Northern Ireland, and civil rights activism in Atlanta. Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions reimagines what an atrocity means, reconsiders what drives the manufacture of law, and reboots the role of courtrooms and other mechanisms in the pursuit of justice. It unveils how law translates sensory experience into its procedures and institutions, and how humanistic inputs shape perceptions of right and wrong. This book thereby offers a refreshing primer on the underappreciated role of aesthetics, time, and emotion in the world of law.

Drumbl and Fournet have done us all a great service in knitting together – in a single, powerfully imagined, volume – these essays about how we might experience the institutionalisation of judgment in atrocity trials.

– Gerry Simpson, Professor of Public International Law, LSE Law School (London).

Contributions to this volume offer a unique opportunity to delve into law’s hidden landscape using the primary reality of the five senses.

– Marina Aksenova, Assistant Professor in Comparative and International Criminal Law, IE Law School (Madrid).

Mark A. Drumbl (J.S.D., 2002, Columbia University), is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University. Caroline Fournet, (Ph.D., 2003, Faculty of Law, University of Leicester) is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter, UK.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Mark A. Drumbl and Caroline Fournet

Part 1

Shows and Cases: Showcasing(s) in the Courtroom

1 Optical Allusions, Indecency, and Injustice in the Trial of Japanese War Criminals

James Burnham Sedgwick

2 ‘The Show Must Go On’: The Trials and Tribulations of Ludmila Brožová-Polednová

Barbora Holá

3 Atrocity Then, Trial Now: The Aesthetics, Acoustics, and Visualities of Prosecuting Oskar Gröning

Caroline Fournet and Mark A. Drumbl

4 Performing Justice: The Trial of Bruno Dey and Its Protagonists

Moritz Vormbaum and Jara Streuer

Part 2

Translating the Senses into Law and Judgment

5 Does Music Create Killers?: The Role of Music in the Commission of Violent Crimes

Agnieszka Jachec-Neale

6 The Stench of Death: The Olfactory of Genocide in International Criminal Trials

Carola Lingaas

7 The Sound and Taste of Atrocities: From Cambodia in the 1970s to Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s

Audrey Fino

8 The Age-Impunity Rhetoric in Trials for Crimes Committed during the Argentine Genocide (1975–1983)

Adriana Taboada and Lior Zylberman

Part 3

Filtering the Sensory: Language, Evidence, Culture, and Procedure

9 Sounds of Atrocity Prosecutions: Intersubjective Interpreting as a Key Ingredient for Effective and Fair Trials in Multilingual and Multicultural War Crimes Courtrooms

Dragana Spencer

10 The Mind’s Eye: The Invisibility of Culture in Individual Criminal Responsibility

Vera Piovesan

11 Versions of the Truth: Disinformation and Prosecuting Atrocities

Emma J. Breeze

12 Putting Things in Play: The Spectacle of Criminal Justice

Sebastián Machado

Part 4

Staging, Re-enactment, Film

13 A Trial without a Defendant: The Mock Trial of Dr. Josef Mengele in Jerusalem

Yehudit Dori-Deston

14 Reconstructing the Crime: Memory, Re-enactments, and Space in Atrocity Investigations

Maria Elander

15 Staging Atrocity Prosecutions: Re-enactments and Pre-enactments of Atrocity Trials in Theatre

Hanna Luise Kroll and Kerstin Wilhelms

16 Entertaining Selectivity: ‘Narcos’, Netflix, and International Crimes

Javier S. Eskauriatza

Part 5

Sensibility Divides: North–South, Imperial–Colonized, State–Society

17 Hearing Voices: Victim and Witness Demographics at the International Criminal Court

Annika Jones

18 Ugly Atrocities, Cathartic Prosecutions: International Criminal Law as Emotional Salve

Randle C. DeFalco

19 Appropriating Sovereignty through Trials: British Imperial Expansion and Staging of Oppression through Law

Aman Kumar

20 ‘Protecting the Environment Is Not Illegal’: Ecological Activism, the Visualities of Law and Justice, and the Land Concession Crisis in Cambodia

Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier

Part 6

Reflections on Aesthetics and Methods

21 Veteran Mobilisation, Prosecutions, and the Contested Legacy of the Past in Northern Ireland: Deconstructing the ‘Witch-Hunt’ Narrative

Kevin Hearty and Kieran McEvoy

22 Negative Aesthetic Experiences of Prosecuting the Barely Alive

Shannon Fyfe

23 Elaborating on the ‘Asymmetry’ of Prosecuting Aged Defendants for Atrocities: A ‘Multimodal-Visual Argumentation’ Perspective

Konstantinos P. Tsinas

24 Atrocity Prosecutions, Cultural Representation, and the Invisible Older Individual

Kirsten J. Fisher

25 The Sights, Sounds, and Silences of International Law During the Cold War

Mark A. Drumbl

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in International Criminal Law ; 06
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1048 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-67794-1 / 9004677941
ISBN-13	978-90-04-67794-4 / 9789004677944
Zustand	Neuware