When faced with those who act with impunity, we seek the protection
of law. We rely upon the legal system for justice, from
international human rights law that establishes common standards of
protection, to international criminal law that spearheads efforts
to end impunity for the most heinous atrocities. While legal
processes are perceived to combat impunity, and despite the ready
availability of the law, accountability often remains elusive. What
if the law itself enables impunity? Law's Impunity asks this
question in the context of the modern Private Military Company
(PMC), examining the relationship between law and the concepts of
responsibility and impunity. This book proposes that ordinary legal
processes do not neutralise, but rather legalise impunity. This
radical idea is applied to the abysmal record of human rights
violations perpetrated by the modern PMC and the shocking absence
of accountability. This book demonstrates how the law organises,
rather than overcomes, impunity by detailing how the modern PMC
exploits ordinary legal processes to systematically exclude itself
from legal responsibility. Thus, Law's Impunity offers an
alternative to conventional thinking about the law, providing an
innovative approach to assess and refine the rigour of legal
processes in the ongoing quest to end impunity.
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