Book contents
- Reviews
- Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Transnational Legal Ordering and Transnational Crimes
- Part III Transnational Legal Ordering and International Crimes
- Chapter Seven The Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Order for Human Rights
- Chapter Eight Colombian Transitional Justice and the Political Economy of the Anti-impunity Transnational Legal Order
- Part IV Transnational Legal Ordering and Human Rights Standards in Criminal Justice
- Part V Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Chapter Seven - The Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Order for Human Rights
Formation, Institutionalization, Consequences, and the Case of Darfur
from Part III - Transnational Legal Ordering and International Crimes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2020
- Reviews
- Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Transnational Legal Ordering and Transnational Crimes
- Part III Transnational Legal Ordering and International Crimes
- Chapter Seven The Anti-Impunity Transnational Legal Order for Human Rights
- Chapter Eight Colombian Transitional Justice and the Political Economy of the Anti-impunity Transnational Legal Order
- Part IV Transnational Legal Ordering and Human Rights Standards in Criminal Justice
- Part V Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the formation of a new anti-impunity Transnational Legal Order (TLO), its institutionalization, and its consequences. Socio-legal scholarship and recent research on responses to the mass violence unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan, beginning in 2003, provide insights into strengths and limits of the new anti-impunity TLO. Based on a comparative eight-country study, involving in depth interviews in four social fields (human rights, diplomacy, humanitarian aid, media) and an analysis of 3,387 media reports, I review judicial steps taken on Darfur, conditions supporting them, and their consequences, interpreting them in terms of the transnational legal ordering approach. The case of Darfur shows the anti-impunity TLO at work, displaying it as a force that delegitimizes mass violence. Yet, it also shows impediments to institutionalization in the form of hostile state actors, fields with potentially competing agendas, including diplomacy and humanitarian aid, internal contradictions, and lack of enforcement power. Nation-level forces filter cultural effects of intervention, resulting in diminished concordance between the international and the global realms and across nation states.
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- Transnational Legal Ordering of Criminal Justice , pp. 205 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020