| The legitimacy of international criminal justice institutions is under attack from academics, civil society actors and third world leaders. Their survival may be jeopardised if they cannot convincingly respond to challenges to their legitimacy. Rather than juxtaposing ostensibly static 'international-legal' and 'local-cultural' understandings of justice, this project will consider how notions of justice and legitimacy are constructed in the course of trial proceedings, examining the discourses of both prosecutors and high-profile accused persons. It will compare these discourses in relation to the Karadzic and the Taylor case, with further reference to the Milosevic case and the 'virtual case' of Al-Bashir. |
