Archival Politics of International Courts

Offers the first analysis of international courts' archives and of how these constitute the international community as a particular reality.

List of contents

1. The politics of archival knowledge in international courts; 2. The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda and its archive; 3: The force of law; 4. Contesting the archive; 5. Reconstituting justice; 6. Imagining community; 7. The residual mechanism and the archive.

About the author

Henry Redwood is Lecturer in International Relations at London South Bank University. He is co-editor of Reconciliation (2021), co-author of Impact and International Affairs (2021), and has published withs Review of International Studies (2019), Millennium (2020) and Critical Studies on Security (2021).

Summary

As the first analysis of the archives of international courts, examining how these archives produce particular understandings of what the 'international community' is, the book is essential reading for IR and ILAW scholars and archival scientists, as well as historians interested in the relationship between history, memory and law.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Alexander Redwood
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781108948838
• ISBN: 978-1-108-94883-8
• No. of pages: 245
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Africa, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, HISTORY / Africa / East, International Relations, International Law, Rwanda, International Criminal Law, African History, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Public international law: criminal law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, International Organisations & Institutions