The Edge of Law: Legal Geographies of a War Crimes Court
Dec 2019 · Cambridge University Press
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The Edge of Law explores the spatial implications of establishing a new legal institution in the wake of violent conflict. Using the example of the establishment of the War Crimes Chamber of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey argues that legal processes constantly demarcate a line of inclusion and exclusion: materially, territorially and corporally. In contrast to accounts that have focused on the judicial outcomes of these transitional justice efforts, The Edge of Law draws on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia and Herzegovina to focus on the social and political consequences of the trials, tracing the fraught mechanisms that have been used by international and local political elites to convey their legitimacy. This book will be of interest to socio-legal and geographical scholars working in the fields of transitional justice, legal systems, critical geopolitics and criminology.
About the author
Alex Jeffrey is a Reader in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Following work for a youth NGO in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Alex Jeffrey's scholarly work has examined the politics of state formation after violent conflict. He is author of over forty papers and chapters on the political and legal geographies of the state and published The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia (2013). He sits on the Editorial Board of Political Geography and the RGS-IBG Book Series.
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