Implementation of the law requires strategic cooperation. No surprise there: It does so even in the most taut domestic polity. Law is intrinsically contingent. And political. But what does the particularly acute dependency of international criminal law on political cooperation teach us about its pertinence? Its promise? Its limits? It is one thing to assess the functionality of international criminal law. It is another to gauge the value of international criminal law, when actuated through adversarial trials, in reconstituting shattered communities; and its effectiveness as a tool of transitional justice. At its core, Virtual Trials is an analysis about functionality. It is not a normative inquiry. Although academic lawyers may find that Virtual Trials hems itself in by the modesty of its goal, the book compellingly delivers what it aims to deliver.
Article
Book Review, Victor Peskin, International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation (2008)
Criminal Law Forum
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
1-1-2009
DOI
http://doi.org/10.1007/s10609-009-9104-2
Disciplines
Abstract
Citation Information
Mark A. Drumbl, Book Review, 20 Crim. L.F. 495 (2009) (reviewing Victor Peskin, International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation (2008)).