The President on Trial - Prosecuting Hissene Habre (Hardcover)

During the 1980s, thousands of Chadian citizens were detained, tortured, and raped by then-President Hissene Habre's security forces. Decades later, Habre was finally prosecuted for his role in these atrocities not in his own country or in The Hague, but across the African continent, at the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal. By some accounts, Habre's trial and conviction by a specially built court in Dakar is the most significant achievement of global criminal justice in the past decade. Simply creating a court and commencing a trial against a deposed head of state was an extraordinary success. With its 2016 judgment, affirmed on appeal in 2017, the hybrid tribunal in Senegal exceeded expectations, working to deadlines and within its budget, with no murdered witnesses or self-dealing officials. This book details and contextualizes the Habre trial. It presents the trial and its impact using a novel structure of first-person accounts from 26 direct actors (Part I), accompanied by academic analysis from leading experts on international criminal justice (Part II). Combined, these views present both local and international perspectives through distinct but inter-locking parts: empirical source material from understudied actors both within and outside the court is then contextualized with expert analysis that reflects on the construction and work of: the Extraordinary African Chamber (EAC) as well as wider themes of international criminal law. Together with an introduction laying out the work and significance of the EAC and its trial of Hissene Habre, the book is a comprehensive consideration of a history-making trial.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2020
Editors:	Sharon Weill (Assistant Professor, The American University of Paris and Senior Lecturer in International Law and Associate Researcher) • Kim Thuy Seelinger (Research Associate Professor at the Brown School, Visiting Professor of Law, and Director of the Center for Human Rights, Gender, and Migration) • Kerstin Bree Carlson (Associate Professor in the Law Department)
Dimensions:	252 x 179 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	460
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-885862-1
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society Books > Law > International law > International criminal law Books > Law > International law > Settlement of international disputes > International courts & procedures
LSN:	0-19-885862-0
Barcode:	9780198858621

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