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Developing a feminist approach to justice for international crimes, this book assesses 'justice' for conflict-related sexual violence using a ground-breaking socio-legal case study of the Women's Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. It offers new strategies for building feminist international criminal justice.
List of contents
1. 'The justice of humans?' outline of a feminist social theory of international criminal justice; Part I. Subjectivity and Sociality in Contemporary International Criminal Law: 2. The international crime; 3. The international legal subject; 4. The international criminal trial; 5. International criminal justice; 6. The global legal form of international criminal law; Part II. The Women's Court and Transformative Gender Justice: 7. The women's court and the feminist approach to justice; 8. Building a feminist approach to justice for international criminal law: Political challenges and conceptual foundations; 9. Building a feminist justice approach to international criminal law in practice: Strategies for change; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Kirsten Campbell is a professor in sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po, Lund University, and University of California, Berkeley. Her research on gender, international criminal law, and transitional justice has been published in numerous journals and books. A leading expert on conflict-related sexual violence, Campbell has worked with non-governmental organisations, the United Nations, and the United Kingdom and European Union on policy and practice in this area.
Summary
Developing a feminist approach to justice for international crimes, this book assesses 'justice' for conflict-related sexual violence using a ground-breaking socio-legal case study of the Women's Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. It offers new strategies for building feminist international criminal justice.
Foreword
An innovative socio-legal study of 'international justice', focusing on conflict-related sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia.
