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New article: "Defense Perspectives on Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

A new article on the role of defense counsel in international criminal tribunals: Jenia Iontcheva Turner, Defense Perspectives on Law and Politics in International Criminal Trials, 48 Va. J. Int'l L. 529 (2008), on SSRN. The Abstract: As international criminal trials become more prominent, a fundamental question persists about their purposes: Are the goals of international criminal trials primarily legal, similar to the objectives of domestic trials, or are they primarily political, such as helping communities heal and compiling an accurate record of the past? Courts and commentators often acknowledge both legal and political purposes of international criminal trials, but fail to prioritize among them. This paper examines the purposes of international criminal trials through the perspectives of an overlooked, but important, participant in these trials--the defense attorney...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).