Justice as Message: Expressivist Foundations of International Criminal Justice

by Carsten Stahn

International criminal justice relies on messages, speech acts, and performative practices in order to convey social meaning. Major criminal proceedings, such as Nuremberg, Tokyo, and other post-World War II trials have been branded as 'spectacles of didactic legality'. However, the expressive and communicative functions of law are often side-lined in institutional discourse and legal practice. This innovative work brings these functions centre-stage,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198864183
• ISBN13: 9780198864189
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"