Law, War and Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law

Acknowledgements viii

Preface 1

1 Law’s Politics: War Crimes Trials and Political Trials 11

2 Law’s Place: Internationalism and Localism 30

3 Law’s Subjects: Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt 54

4 Law’s Promise: Punishment, Memory and Dissent 79

5 Law’s Anxieties: Show Trials 105

6 Law’s Hegemony: The Juridifi cation of War 132

7 Law’s Origins: Pirates 159

8 Law’s Fate 178

Notes 180

Select Bibliography 194

Index 210