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Book Review: Larry May and Shannon Fyfe, International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense
deGuzman, Margaret M.
deGuzman, Margaret M.
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2018-06-08
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679418000345
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In "International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense," Larry May and Shannon Fyfe set out to demonstrate that international tribunals provide “the fairest way to deal with mass atrocity crimes in a global arena.” To do so, the authors take up a wide range of critiques that scholars and others have leveled at international criminal tribunals and argue that although most have some validity, none are fatal to the enterprise of international criminal justice. The authors’ analysis of the various critiques yields both normative arguments about the value of international criminal tribunals and suggestions about how the institutions can be improved. In advancing their normative claims and supporting their prescriptive suggestions, the authors draw on a deep well of philosophical and theoretical concepts, including legitimacy, fairness, effectiveness, and efficiency. The result is a book that not only canvases and addresses the broad array of critiques leveled at international criminal tribunals but adds significantly to the rather scant literature on the philosophical justifications for international criminal justice.
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Margaret M. deGuzman, International Criminal Tribunals: A Normative Defense, Larry May and Shannon Fyfe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 217 pp., $110 cloth., 32 Ethics & International Affairs 249–251 (2018).
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Cambridge University Press
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Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 32, Iss. 2
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