The Milosevic Trial: An Autopsy

by Timothy William Waters (Editor)

Overview

The Milo%sevi? Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. The international trial of Slobodan Milo%sevi?, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials when Milo%sevi? died in 2006. Yet precisely because it ended without judgment, its significance and legacy are specially contested. The contributors to this volume, including trial participants, area specialists, and international law scholars bring a variety of perspectives as they examine the meaning of the trial's termination and its implications for post-conflict justice. The book's approach is intensively cross-disciplinary, weighing the implications for law, politics, and society that modern war crimes trials create. The time for such an examination is fitting, with the imminent closing of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and rising debates over its legacy, as well as the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of the Yugoslav conflict. The Milo%sevi? Trial - An Autopsy brings thought-provoking insights into the impact of war crimes trials on post-conflict justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199323975
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Timothy William Waters is Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he teaches international and comparative law. He earned a BA from UCLA, a Masters in international affairs from Columbia, and a JD from Harvard. Professor Waters previously worked at the ICTY, where he helped draft the Kosovo indictment of Milosevic. He has also worked with the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on issues relating to the former Yugoslavia. He regularly contributes commentary to major print and online media, including the New York Times and Foreign Policy, and is a member of the advisory board of Nationalities Papers.

Table of Contents

Topical Index Forward: A Trial Terminated A Note on Reading This Book I. Vital Signs: The Milo%sevi? Trial in Its Context 1. The Context, Contested: Histories of Yugoslavia and its Violent Dissolution 2. The Forum: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia 3. The Man on Trial: Slobodan Milo%sevi? 4. IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milo%sevi? II. Causes of Death 5. Real Justice, in Time: The Initial Indictment of Milo%sevi? Clint Williamson (Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force) 6. Real Justice or Realpolitik? The Delayed Indictment of Milo%sevi? Cherif Bassiouni (DePaul University) . . . 7. Slow Poison: Joinder and the Death of Milo%sevi? Gideon Boas (Monash University) 8. Joinder, Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Justice Fr?d?ric M?gret (McGill University) . . . 9. Difficulties for the Participants: Indictment Correct, Trial Impossible Carla Del Ponte (Former Chief Prosecutor, ICTY and ICTR) 10. Outside the Internal Dynamics of the Prosecution Kelly Dawn Askin (Open Society Justice Initiative) . . . 11. In the Shadow of Non-Recognition: Milo%sevi? and the Self-Represented Accused's Right to Justice Evelyn Anoya (Special Tribunal for Lebanon) 12. The Legitimacy Paradox of Self-Representation Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) III. Reporting the Demise 13. Guilty without a Verdict: Bosniaks' Perceptions of the Milo%sevi? Trial Safia Swimelar (Elon University) 14. The Hague Front in the Homeland War: Narratives of the Milo%sevi? Trial in Croatia Christopher K. Lamont (University of Groningen) . . . 15. Another Report on the Banality of Evil: The Cultural Politics of the Milo%sevi? Trial in Kosovo Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina; University of Ljubljana) 16. Conversations with Milo%sevi?: Two Meetings, Bloody Hands Veton Surroi (KOHA Media Group) . . . 17. Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians' Reactions to the Milo%sevi? Trial Frances Trix (Indiana University) 18. Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics) . . . 19. Framing the Trial of the Century: Influences of, and on, International Media Klaus Bachmann (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities) 20. The Court and Public Opinion: Negotiating Tensions between Trial Process and Public Interest in Milo%sevi? Judith Armatta (Formerly Coalition for International Justice) Maps and Photos IV. Final Examination 21. Dead Man's Tale: Deriving Narrative Authority from the Terminated Milo%sevi? Trial Timothy Waters (Indiana University) 22. Beyond the Theater of International Justice: The Rule 98bis Decision in Milo%sevi? Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics) . . . 23. Can We Salvage a History of Yugoslav Conflicts from the Milo%sevi? Trial? Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University) 24. Do Historians Need a Verdict? Florian Bieber (Karl-Franzens Universit?t Graz) . . . 25. Body of Evidence: The Prosecution's Construction of Milo%sevi? Marko Prelec (International Crisis Group) 26. Milo%sevi? and the Justice of Peace Alexander K.A. Greenawalt (Pace University) V. Disposing of the Body 27. The Parting of Ways: Public Reckoning with the Recent Past in Post-Milo%sevi? Serbia Jasna Dragovi?-Soso (Goldsmiths) 28. Antecedents to a Debate: Conflicts over the Transfer of Milo%sevi? Vesna Pe%si? (Member of Parliament, Serbia) . . . 29. The Show and the Trial: The Political Death of Milo%sevi? Florian Bieber (Karl-Franzens Universit?t Graz) 30. From Politics to Law, to Tedium, and Back Mark Drumbl (Washington&Lee University) VI. Reanimation: Designing Trials and Doing Justice after Two Sides of the Same Coin? Judging Milo%sevi? and Serbia before the ICTY and ICJ Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) 32. Ambiguous Choices in the Trials of Milo%sevi?'s Serbia Tibor V?rady (Central European University; Emory University) . . . 33. Abdicated Legacy: The Prosecution's Use of Evidence from Milo%sevi? Florence Hartmann (Formerly Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY) 34. The Spider and the System: Milo%sevi? and Joint Criminal Enterprise Harmen van der Wilt (University of Amsterdam) VII. Biopsy: Legacies of Milo%sevi? Timeline with Chronological Index Author Biographies and Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

"This volume will prove of interest to scholars in law, political science, and history. It places the Milosevic trial and its impact in a broader context beyond not merely the Yugoslav wars, but also the international resolution of crimes arising from other conflicts." -Jim Chen, Ratio Juris

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