Book contents
- The Edge of Law
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- The Edge of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One The Edge of Law
- Part I Producing the Edge of Law
- Part II Politics at the Edge of Law
- Chapter Four Public Outreach
- Chapter Five Law and Citizenship
- Part III Contesting the Edge of Law
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Chapter Four - Public Outreach
from Part II - Politics at the Edge of Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2019
- The Edge of Law
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- The Edge of Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter One The Edge of Law
- Part I Producing the Edge of Law
- Part II Politics at the Edge of Law
- Chapter Four Public Outreach
- Chapter Five Law and Citizenship
- Part III Contesting the Edge of Law
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Summary
In this chapter I explore how the edge of law has been constituted and transgressed in the operation of the WCC. This requires an expanded legal geography of the court’s activities, to trace how the fulfilment of trials at the court has required the enrolment of civil society organisations to both communicate the legitimacy of the new legal institution and to assist with the practical activity of supplying witnesses and material evidence. Theoretically, this contributes to work that has sought to decentre legal processes within the operation of transitional justice, to think through the wider array of social actors that are complicit and necessary in successfully operating processes of transitional justice. While legal practices are rightly key elements of transitional justice responses, these operate through and summon into existence a series of non-legal spaces and actors.
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- The Edge of LawLegal Geographies of a War Crimes Court, pp. 79 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019