President on Trial Prosecuting Hissène Habré
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Biografisk notat
Dr. Sharon Weill is Assistant Professor at The American University of Paris and a Senior Lecturer in international law and associate researcher at Sciences-Po, Paris (PSIA/CERI). Her particular field of interest is the relationship between international and domestic law, the politics of international law and the role of courts- topics on which she has published several articles and book chapters. Her post-doctoral research on the Guantanamo Bay military commissions was conducted at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley (2015-2016). Prior to that, she participated in the European research project "Security in Transition" led by Professor Mary Kaldor (London School of Economic), and was a research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian and Human rights law for several years. She received her PhD in international law from the University of Geneva in 2012. Kim Thuy Seelinger, JD, is Research Associate Professor at the Brown School and Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, where she is also the inaugural director of the cross-disciplinary Center for Human Rights, Gender, and Migration under the Institute of Public Health. From 2010-2019, Seelinger served as the founding Director of the Sexual Violence Program at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she remains a Research Fellow. In 2015, she co-authored an amicus curiae brief on sexual violence under customary international law in the Habré case. Seelinger received her JD from New York University School of Law and is a member of the New York bar. Dr Kerstin Bree Carlson is Associate Professor in the Law Department of the University of Southern Denmark, where she teaches in the Masters of International Security and Law program. She is also affiliated with The American University of Paris and iCourts at the University of Copenhagen. Carlson began her work on the Habré trial in 2015 as a post-doctoral researcher at iCourts at the University of Copenhagen, and did extensive field research in Dakar. Carlson received her JD and PhD degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.Ultimately, The President on Trial is a distinctive and timely read on an emblematic case. It captures the current preoccupations and hopes of advocates and practitioners of international criminal justice, at a time marked by a much - discussed African backlash against the International Criminal Court. The book looks back on the history of the Habré trial but remains rooted in the present and turned towards to the future, aiming to explore - and perhaps challenge - assumptions that the trial is doomed to be a precedent with no future.
Charlotte Mohr, International Review of the Red Cross
The President on Trial is a collection rich in material about the inner workings of the EAC and the place it occupies within the ever-expanding universe of hybrid courts ... this edited volume is the most comprehensive resource available on the Habré trial and a must-read for anyone interested in the real-time operation of hybrid courts.
Valerie Arnould, International Criminal Law Review
... the book is exceptionally readable and engaging, and offers a 360-degree perspective of the court and trial, giving voice to the victims and their representatives, NGO actors, the prosecution, defence counsel, sexual violence experts and advocates, international actors, administrators, journalists, commentators, academics, and even the accused himself. It is one of those rare works that bridge practice and theory, and it should serve as a model for future analyses of courts and institutions.
Alex Whiting, Deputy Specialist Prosecutor, Kosovo Specialist Chambers, The Hague, Journal of International Criminal Justice
[The President on Trial] should be required reading for any sociolegal scholar. Not just because of its theoretical value, which is impressive, but because of its powerful reflection of a variety of human experiences as the personal and professional lives of the contributors collide with the hard life of the law.
Alexa Koenig, School of Law, University of California, Law and Society Review
The President on Trial is a tour-de-force. Edited by three distinguished international law scholars, the forty-three chapters of this volume are undoubtedly the definitive work on the trial of Hissène Habré before the Extraordinary African Chambers. A must read for any serious scholar or practitioner of international criminal justice.
Leila Sadat, Professor of International Criminal Law, Washington University in St Louis and Special Adviser on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor
A work of hope for accountability: Together, these remarkable essays will surely serve as the first point of reference on the story of Hissène Habré's terrible crimes and the long path to justice.
Philippe Sands, Author of East West Street, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals, UCL
The President on Trial makes an important empirical and methodological addition to the study of international courts. By combining first-person accounts and academic contextualizations, the book provides an encyclopedic account of the construction of a hybrid tribunal to address crimes against humanity committed by Chad's regime as well as a model for how to study new judicial institutions.
Mikael Rask Madsen, Professor and Director of iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
At a time when we are told that international criminal justice cannot work - this it is too weak, too slow, expensive, too disillusioning - this book stands for the proposition that it can work and has worked. In a novel and innovative study, the three author-editors bring the voices of participants to the fore, and in so doing reveal how it was possible to hold a powerful head of state to account for a multiplicity of heinous crimes. It is at once a moving account of a singularly important trial, and a model of scholarship.
Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor Emeritus, Berkeley School of Law26/06/2020.