TY  - GEN
AU  - Eltringham, Nige
TI  - Genocide Never Sleeps: Living Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
SN  - 9781108707398
U1  - 345.0251 ELT 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Genocide - Rwanda
KW  - Rwanda - History
KW  - Tutsi (African people)
KW  - Crimes against - Rwanda
KW  - History - 20th century
N2  - Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genocide Never Sleeps, based on ethnographic research at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), provides an alternative account, describing a messy, flawed human process in which legal practitioners faced with novel challenges sought to reconfigure long-standing habits and opinions while maintaining a commitment to 'justice'. From the challenges of simultaneous translation to collaborating with colleagues from different legal traditions, legal practitioners were forced to scrutinise that which normally remains assumed in domestic law. By providing an account of this process, Genocide Never Sleeps not only provides a unique insight into the exceptional nature of the ad hoc, improvised ICTR and the day-to-day practice of international criminal justice, but also holds up for fresh inspection much that is naturalised and assumed in unexceptional, domestic legal processes
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