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Print Price: $282.00

Format:
Hardback
832 pp.
6.125" x 9.25"

ISBN-13:
9780199795840

Publication date:
January 2014

Imprint: OUP US

The Milosevic Trial

An Autopsy

Timothy Waters

The Milosevic Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of the most controversial war crimes trial 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 Milosevic, who presided over the violent collapse of Yugoslavia - was already among the longest war crimes trials when Milosevic 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 Milosevic Trial - An Autopsy brings thought-provoking insights into the impact of war crimes trials on post-conflict justice.

Readership : Suitable for scholars interested in international law, war crimes, Yugoslavia and Eastern European history.

Topical index
Forward: A Trial Terminated
A Note on Reading This Book
I. Vital Signs: The Milosevic 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 Milosevic
4. IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic
II. Causes of Death
5. Clint Williamson: Real Justice, in Time: The Initial Indictment of Milosevic
6. Cherif Bassiouni: Real Justice or Realpolitik? The Delayed Indictment of Milosevic
7. Gideon Boas: Slow Poison: Joinder and the Death of Milosevic
8. Frédéric Mégret: Joinder, Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Justice
9. Carla Del Ponte: Difficulties for the Participants: Indictment Correct, Trial Impossible
10. Kelly Dawn Askin: Outside the Internal Dynamics of the Prosecution
11. Evelyn Anoya: In the Shadow of Non-Recognition: Milosevic and the Self-Represented Accused's Right to Justice
12. Yuval Shany: The Legitimacy Paradox of Self-Representation
III. Reporting the Demise
13. Safia Swimelar: Guilty without a Verdict: Bosniaks' Perceptions of the Milosevic Trial
14. Christopher K. Lamont: The Hague Front in the Homeland War: Narratives of the Milosevic Trial in Croatia
15. Vjollca Krasniqi: Another Report on the Banality of Evil: The Cultural Politics of the Milosevic Trial in Kosovo
16. Veton Surroi: Conversations with Milosevic: Two Meetings, Bloody Hands
17. Frances Trix: Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians' Reactions to the Milosevic Trial
18. Denisa Kostovicova: Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo
19. Klaus Bachmann: Framing the Trial of the Century: Influences of, and on, International Media
20. Judith Armatta: The Court and Public Opinion: Negotiating Tensions between Trial Process and Public Interest in Milosevic
Maps and Photos
IV. Final Examination
21. Timothy Waters: Dead Man's Tale: Deriving Narrative Authority from the Terminated Milosevic Trial
22. Jens Meierhenrich: Beyond the Theater of International Justice: The Rule 98bis Decision in Milosevic
23. Christian Axboe Neilsen: Can We Salvage a History of the Yugoslav Conflicts from the Milosevic Trial?
24. Florian Bieber: Do Historians Need a Verdict?
25. Marko Prelec: Body of Evidence: The Prosecution's Construction of Milosevic
26. Alexander K. A. Greenawalt: Milosevic and the Justice of Peace
V. Disposing of the Body
27. Jasna Dragovic-Soso: The Parting of Ways: Public Reckoning with the Recent Past in Post-Milosevic Serbia
28. Vesna Pesic: Antecedents to a Debate: Conflicts over the Transfer of Milosevic
29. Florian Bieber: The Show and the Trial: The Political Death of Milosevic
30. Mark Drumbl: From Politics to Law, to Tedium, and Back
VI. Reanimation: Designing Trials and Doing Justice after Milosevic
31. Yuval Shany: Two Sides of the Same Coin? Judging Milosevic and Serbia before the ICTY and ICJ
32. Tibor Verady: Ambiguous Choices in the Trials of Milosevic's Serbia
33. Florence Hartmann: Abdicated Legacy: The Prosecution's Use of Evidence from Milosevic
34. Harmen van der Wilt: The Spider and the System: Milosevic and Joint Criminal Enterprise
VII. Biopsy: Legacies of Milosevic
Timeline with Chronological Index
Author Biographies and Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

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Timothy William Waters is Associate 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.

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Special Features

This is the first cross-disciplinary examination of the longest, most controversial war crimes trial of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.
SThree distinct types of author are brought together in this volume, addressing the interests of three distinct audiences: Actual trial participants, including members of the defense and prosecution; leading scholars of international criminal law; and area studies experts, the last including voices from the former Yugoslavia.
This volume incorporates law, political science, history and others perspectives, placing the trial and its impact in broader context relevant to thinkers and policymakers interested not only in the wars in Yugoslavia, but their practical lessons for other conflicts and other courts.