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The Hariri and Saddam tribunals: two expressions of tortured justice
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In this article, the authors analyze the pursuit of justice in relation to two major events: the murder of Rafiq Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister, and the international crimes that Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, was accused of committing.Abstract:
This article establishes that politically motivated pursuit of criminal justice at the international level undermines trust in the international legal order and inflicts multilateral harm that goes far beyond the facts subject to judicial process. The author analyzes the pursuit of justice in relation to two major events: the murder of Rafiq Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister, and the international crimes that Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, was accused of committing. In the first example, the author examines the role of the UN Security Council, including reference to the efforts of the US, relative to the investigation and establishment of a special tribunal for Lebanon; and in the second, the role of the US in the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. Both cases demonstrate that justice is the main victim of politicizing the judicial process.read more
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Documents on the laws of war
Adam Roberts,Richard Guelff +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the texts of twenty-five formal international agreements, from the 1856 Paris Declaration to the 1981 UN Weapons Convention, are annotated with prefatory notes by the editors, explaining its legal and historical context.
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The Security Council as World Legislature
TL;DR: The legal framework for Security Council legislation has been examined in this paper, where the authors assess the effectiveness of this new weapon in the Security Council's arsenal and examine the legal framework of international legislation in the context of Security Council action.