Legacies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Edited by Carsten Stahn, Carmel Agius, Serge Brammertz, and Colleen Rohan
- Provides an in-deth and first-hand account of the legacies of the ICTY, one of the pioneering experiments in international criminal justice
- Broadens the perspective on the contribution of the tribunal, incorporating legal, historical, and linguistic approaches, amongst others
- Chapters come from leading experts and scholars from both within and outside of the tribunal, making this the authoritative account of the legacies of the ICTY
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is one the pioneering experiments in international criminal justice. It has left a rich legal, institutional, and non-judicial legacy. This edited collection provides a broad perspective on the contribution of the tribunal to law, memory, and justice. It explores some of the accomplishments, challenges, and critiques of the ICTY, including its less visible legacies.
The book analyses different sites of legacy: the expressive function of the tribunal, its contribution to the framing of facts, events, and narratives of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia, and investigative and experiential legacies. It also explores lesser known aspects of legal practice (such as defence investigative ethics, judgment drafting, contempt cases against journalists, interpretation and translation), outreach, approaches to punishment and sentencing, the tribunals’ impact on domestic legal systems, and ongoing debates over impact and societal reception. The volume combines voices from inside the tribunal with external perspectives to elaborate the rich history of the ICTY, which continues to be written to this day.
Table of Contents
Preface, UNSG António Guterres
Introduction: Legacy as Dialogue — Reflecting on the ICTY Experience, Carsten Stahn
PART I OPENING REFLECTIONS
1 The Last Testament of the ICTY, Carmel Agius
2 Making Complementarity a Reality: The Experiences of the ICTY and IRMCT Office of the Prosecutor, Serge Brammertz
3 The ICTY and the Defence Legacy: The Association of Counsel Practising Before the ICTY, Colleen Rohan
4 The Moral Legacy of the ICTY, Miguel de Serpa Soares
PART II LEGACY LENSES, THEORIZATIONS, AND NARRATIVES
5 The ICTY is Dead! Long Live the ICTY!: ICTY Legacies in Perspective, Carsten Stahn
6 Legacies in the Making at the ICTY, Viviane E. Dittrich
7 The Narrative Legacies of Exceptional Crime: The Prosecutor as a Peacebuilder, Simone Gigliotti and Amber Pierce
8 Meandering Jurisprudence and Unanticipated Legacies: The ICTY’s Reach into Domestic Civil Litigation, Mark Drumbl
PART III EXPRESSIVE PRACTICES, JUDICIAL RECORD, HISTORY, AND TRUTH
9 Symbolic Expression at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Marina Aksenova
10 A Partial View of History: ICTY Judgments as ‘Judicial Truths’, Luigi Prosperi and Aldo Zammit Borda
11 Handle with Care: ICTY, Juridical By-products, and Criminological Analyses, Andy Aydin-Aitchison
PART IV EVIDENCE, WITNESS TESTIMONY, AND WITNESS EXPERIENCES
12 Lessons Learned from the Use of DNA Evidence in Srebrenica-related Trials at the ICTY, Kweku Vanderpuye and Christopher Mitchell
13 Whither Thou Truth and Justice: Witness Perceptions About their Contributions to the ICTY, Kimi Lynn King and James Meernik
PART V CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, COURT MANAGEMENT, AND OUTREACH
14 Defence Investigative Ethics: Practical Lessons from the ICTY’s Legacy for Counsel Practising in the Region, Michael G. Karnavas
15 Judgments and Judgment Drafting, Thomas Wayde Pittman and Marko Divac Öberg
16 Muzzling the Press: When Does the Law Justify Reporting Restrictions? Contempt Cases Against Journalists at the ICTY and Beyond, Audrey Fino and Sandra Sahyouni
17 Translating and Interpreting at the ICTY: Lessons Learned, Ellen Elias-Bursać
18 Was it Worth it? A Look into the Results of the ICTY’s Outreach Programme, Petar Finci
19 The Legacy of Youth Outreach at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Adrian Plevin
PART VIÂ PUNISHMENT, SENTENCING, AND BEYOND
20 Punishing for Humanity: The Sentencing Legacy of the ICTY, Margaret M. deGuzman
21 Vertical Inconsistency of International Sentencing? The ICTY and Domestic Courts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Barbora Holá
22 When Justice is Done: The ICTY and the Post-trial Phase, Joris van Wijk and Barbora Holá
PART VII IMPACT ON DOMESTIC LEGAL SYSTEMS
23 Narratives of Justice and War in Croatia, Ivor Sokolić
24 The Legacy of the ICTY: The Three-tiered Approach to Justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Benchmarks for Measuring Success, Jennifer Trahan and Iva Vukušić
25 Cooperation between Serbia and the ICTY for the Investigation and Prosecution of Violations of International Humanitarian Law, Tatjana Dawson and Ljiljana Hellman
26 ‘We Learnt that from The Hague’: How the ICTY Influenced the Fairness of Criminal Trials in the Former Yugoslavia, Kei Hannah Brodersen
PART VIII SOCIETAL IMPACT, RECEPTION, AND GAPS
27 The Peace versus Justice Debate Revisited: The ICTY’s Impact on the Bosnian Peace Process, Jacqueline R. McAllister
28 Croatia’s Homeland War, the Battles Over Victor’s Justice, and the Legacy of the ICTY, Victor Peskin
29 The (Lack of) Impact of the ICTY on the Public Memory of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc
30 The Broken Path to Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina: A Field Study of Memories, Rosa Aloisi
31 The ICTY, Truth, and Reconciliation: A Meta Reconceptualization, Janine Natalya Clark
Author Information
Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the Leiden Law School and at Queen’s University Belfast.
Carmel Agius is President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and served as the final President of the ICTY.
Serge Brammertz is Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals and served as the final Prosecutor of the ICTY.
Colleen Rohan is an international lawyer at Bedford Row and former president of the Association of Defence Counsel for the ICTY.
Contributors:
Marina Aksenova, Professor of Comparative and International Criminal Law at IE University in Madrid
Rosa Aloisi, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Trinity University
Carmel Agius, Current President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
Andy Aydin-Aitchison, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Aldo Zammit Borda, Senior Lecturer and Acting Head of the Law School in the Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
Rafael Braga da Silva, Attorney at Law
Serge Brammertz, Current Chief Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
Hanna Brodersen, PhD Candidate in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the Faculty of Law in Maastricht University
Janine Natalya Clark, Professor of Gender, Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law at the Birmingham Law School
Tatjana Dawson, Current Coordinator of the Responsible Behavior Unit at the Artsen zonder Grenzen Nederland
Margaret M. DeGuzman, Associate Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law.
Viviane E. Dittrich, Deputy Director of the International Nuremberg Principles Academy
Mark Drumbl, Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington & Lee University, School of Law
Petar Finci, Researcher in the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Audrey Fino, Former Legal Officer in the Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
Simone Gigliotti, Senior Lecturer/Reader in Holocaust Studies, Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Ljiljana Hellman, Head of Judicial Records and Court Operations Unit at the IRMCT
Barbora Holá, Senior Researcher at the NSCR and Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at VU University of Amsterdam
Michael G. Karnavas, American trained lawyer qualified to appear before various international tribunals.
Kimi Lynn King, Professor of Political Science in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Texas
Jacqueline McAllister, Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Kenyon College
James Meernik, Professor and the Coordinator of the Division of Social Sciences
Christopher Mitchell, Barrister at Banco Chambers, Sydney
Marko Divac Öberg, Legal Officer in chambers at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Victor Peskin, Associate Professor at the School of Politics and Global Studies at the Arizona State University
Amber Pierce, PhD candidate at the Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London
Thomas Wayde Pittman, Former military trial judge (European Judicial Circuit) and retiree of the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General’s Corps.
Adrian M. Plevin, Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Luigi Prosperi, Former Associate Legal Officer at the Office of The Prosecutor in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Colleen Rohan, Expert in criminal defence litigation in domestic and international courts
Sandra Sahyouni, Legal Officer at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, currently on loan at the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Miguel de Serpa Soares, Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel
Ivor Sokolic, Research Officer at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Carsten Stahn, Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice and Programme Director of the Leiden University Grotius Centre for International Studies at The Hague, and Professor of Public International Law and International Criminal Justice at Queen’s University Belfast
Jennifer Trahan, Clinical Professor, The Center for Global Affairs, NYU-SPS
Jovana Mihajlovic Trbovc, Political scientist dealing with political issues from perspective of culture studies
Joris van Wijk, Policy advisor
Kweku Vanderpuye, Senior Trial Lawyer in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
Iva Vukusic, PhD Candidate, History Department, Utrecht University
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