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"Preface" [2012] ELECD 1317; in Boas, Gideon; Schabas, A. William; Scharf, P. Michael (eds), "International Criminal Justice" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) xi

Book Title: International Criminal Justice

Editor(s): Boas, Gideon; Schabas, A. William; Scharf, P. Michael

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781005590

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface
Books about international criminal law abound, whether technical manuals,
textbooks, tomes on the yet-to-blossom International Criminal Court, or a
growing plethora of monographs. There are also many works on associated
areas such as transitional or restorative justice. International criminal justice
as a discipline throws up numerous conceptual issues. While a predomin-
antly legal response to mass atrocity satisfies traditional conceptions of
justice, particularly in the milieu of international law, international criminal
justice is so much more than this, engaging disciplinary areas such as
politics, history, sociology and psychology to name but a few. The contribu-
tion that this book of edited essays seeks to make to this crowded field is to
address some of these themes, from a mixture of traditional and more
radical perspectives.
This book is one of the significant outcomes of a major project into the
nature and content of international criminal justice. The purpose of the
International Criminal Justice Project, funded by the Australian Research
Council, is to explore the many facets of a sometimes strange and always
complex discipline.
The contributions in this book critique some of the fundamental ques-
tions about international criminal justice. The first chapter, written by
Gideon Boas, considers an essential yet often neglected topic: what is
international criminal justice? Michael Scharf writes about the unique
challenge of maintaining order in the courtroom where the most serious of
international crimes are being tried. Lord Iain Bonomy of the Scottish
Supreme Courts and a former Judge of the International ...