Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Kamari Maxine Clarke

Book Overview

By taking up the challenge of documenting how human rights values are embedded in rule of law movements to produce a new language of international justice that competes with a range of other formations, this book explores how notions of justice are negotiated through everyday micropractices and grassroots contestations of those practices. These micropractices include speech acts that revere the protection of international rights, citation references...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521889103
• ISBN13: 9780521889100
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"