| The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy Contributor(s): Jalloh, Charles Chernor (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107029147 ISBN-13: 9781107029149 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | International |
| Dewey: 341.690 |
| LCCN: 2013009993 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 7" W x 10.1" (3.15 lbs) 824 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) is the third modern international criminal tribunal supported by the United Nations and the first to be situated where the crimes were committed. This timely, important, and comprehensive book is the first to critically assess the impact and legacy of the SCSL for Africa and international criminal law. The collection, containing 37 original chapters from leading scholars and respected practitioners with inside knowledge of the tribunal, analyzes cutting-edge and controversial issues with significant implications for international criminal law and transitional justice. These include joint criminal enterprise; the novel crime against humanity of forced marriage; the war crime prohibiting enlisting and using child soldiers in the first court to prosecute that offense; the prosecution of the war crime of attacks against United Nations peacekeepers in the first tribunal where this offense was prosecuted; the tension between truth commissions and criminal trials in the first country to simultaneously have the two; and the questions of whether it is permissible under international law for states to unilaterally confer blanket amnesties to local perpetrators of universally condemned international crimes, whether the immunities enjoyed by an incumbent head of a third state bars his prosecution before an ad hoc treaty-based international criminal court, and whether such courts may be funded by donations from states without compromising judicial independence. |
Contributor Bio(s): Jalloh, Charles Chernor: - Charles Chernor Jalloh is Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. A member of the Ontario Bar, he was a Legal Counsel in the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Section, Canadian Department of Justice; Associate Legal Officer in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; and the Legal Advisor to the Office of the Principal Defender, Special Court for Sierra Leone, where he also served as court-appointed interim counsel to former Liberian President Charles Taylor in 2007. He is active in the international criminal bar serving, inter alia, on the Advisory Panel to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; on the Advisory Board of the War Crimes Committee, International Bar Association; as an elected Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law's International Criminal Law Interest Group; and as a Fellow of the Sierra Leone Institute of International Law. Professor Jalloh, who has published widely on issues of international criminal justice especially as they pertain to Africa, is editor of Consolidated Legal Texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2007) and the lead editor of the first comprehensive multi-volume Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2012). He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the African Journal of Legal Studies, a peer-reviewed journal of The Africa Law Institute. |