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Trials of Imperfection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2004

Geoffrey Nice
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Abstract

The speaker identifies the scale of the task facing the ICTY and ICTR. He speaks of the necessary procedural and personnel imperfections by which their performance is bound to be limited along with the imperfections of the people of the regions whose war crimes they deal with. He deals with some inevitable shortcomings in the lawyers and judges working at the tribunals and argues for the need to have personnel of the very highest quality doing the tribunals' work. He highlights the need to be truly objective about the tribunals and their work but expresses optimism about their potential beneficial effects.

Keywords

cultural difficulties and imperialismICTYICTRjudicial limitationsprocedure
Type
HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 383 - 397
Copyright
© 2001 Kluwer Law International

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Footnotes

This lecture was presented during the 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (‘ISSEI’) in Bergen, Norway, on 18 August 2000.