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020			_a9781108707398
082			_a345.0251 ELT
100			_aEltringham, Nige
245			_aGenocide Never Sleeps: Living Law at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2021 _aNew York
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520			_aAccounts 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.
650			_aGenocide - Rwanda
650			_aRwanda - History
650			_aTutsi (African people)
650			_aCrimes against - Rwanda
650			_aHistory - 20th century.
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