Sponsor
Hatfield School of Government. Public Affairs and Policy Ph. D. Program
First Advisor
David Kinsella
Date of Publication
Winter 3-4-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Public Affairs and Policy
Department
Public Affairs and Policy
Language
English
Subjects
International criminal courts -- History, International criminal law -- Moral and ethical aspects, Liberalism, Human rights
DOI
10.15760/etd.2703
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 241 pages)
Abstract
This dissertation in four essays critically examines the emergence of international criminal courts: their international political underpinnings, context, and the impact of their political production in relation to liberal legalism, liberal political theory, and history. The essays conceive of international criminal legal bodies both as political projects at their inception and as institutions that deny their own political provenance. The work is primarily one of political theory at the intersection of history, international relations, international criminal law, and the politics of memory. The first essay questions Nuremberg's legacy on the United States' exceptionalist view of international law and its deviant practice, while the second essay explores the relationship between exploding inequality and the triumph of the human rights movement as well as the costs of international prosecutions to the detriment of transformative politics. The third essay explores the relationship between history and international criminal courts, as well as the limits of their engagement, while the fourth examines the idea of legalism - rule following as a moral ethos - in the context of real political trials.
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Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16904
Recommended Citation
Dickson, Tiphaine, "On the Poverty, Rise, and Demise of International Criminal Law" (2016). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2707.
https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.2703