Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Explores how the first treaty-based UN international tribunal's judges innovatively applied the law to perpetrators of international crimes in one of the worst conflicts in recent history.

List of contents

Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The sierra leone conflict; 3. The establishment of the special court for sierra leone; 4. The special court's jurisdiction, organization and trials; 5. Greatest responsibility personal jurisdiction; 6. Forced marriage as a crime against humanity; 7. Child recruitment as a war crime; 8. Head of state immunity; 9. Amnesties; 10. Special courts and truth commissions; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography/Sources Reviewed; Index.

About the author

Charles C. Jalloh is Professor of Law at Florida International University and Member, International Law Commission. He has published widely on issues of international criminal justice, and in 2018, was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International Law at Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden. His prior work experience includes as a legal adviser in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. He is lead editor of the Consolidated Legal Texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2007), The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy (2013) and four volumes of The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2012-2020). He holds degrees from Guelph, McGill, Oxford, and a PhD in international law, from University of Amsterdam.

Summary

Examines how the first treaty-based international tribunal created by the UN and a member state applied the law to perpetrators of serious crimes in one of the worst civil conflicts in Africa in recent history and offered valuable contributions to the development of the nascent field of international criminal law.

Product details

• Authors: Charles C Jalloh, Charles C. Jalloh, Charles C. (Florida International Universi Jalloh, Charles C. (Florida International University) Jalloh, JALLOH CHARLES C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781107178311
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17831-1
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sierra Leone, LAW / International, Legal History, Legal aspects of criminology, International humanitarian law, Criminal justice law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Armed Conflict, Criminology: legal aspects, Legal systems: law of contempt, Legal system: law of contempt