The Founders: Four Pioneering Individuals Who Launched the First Modern-Era International Criminal Tribunals

The Balkan Wars, the Rwanda genocide, and the crimes against humanity in Cambodia and Sierra Leone spurred the creation of international criminal tribunals to bring the perpetrators of unimaginable atrocities to justice. When Richard Goldstone, David Crane, Robert Petit, and Luis Moreno-Ocampo received the call - each set out on a unique quest to build an international criminal tribunal and launch its first prosecutions. Never before have the founding International Prosecutors told the behind-the-scenes stories of their historic journey. With no blueprint and little precedent, each was a path-breaker. This book contains the first-hand accounts of the challenges they faced, the obstacles they overcame, and the successes they achieved in obtaining justice for millions of victims.

Author: David M. Crane
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/15/2018
Pages: 180
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.05h x 6.38w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781108439510


Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2018

About the Author
Crane, David M.: - "David M. Crane is the first American to be named the Chief Prosecutor of an international war crimes tribunal since Justice Robert Jackson at Nuremberg in 1945. He is one of the most recognizable international criminal lawyers in the world, renowned as the person who took down the most powerful warlord in Africa, President Charles Taylor of Liberia - the only person to have taken down a sitting head of state for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the modern era. Crane is now leading the international effort to hold President Assad of Syria and his henchmen accountable."Scharf, Michael P.: - Michael P. Scharf is Dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Scharf is the author of eighteen books, including three that have won national book of the year honors. During the elder Bush and Clinton Administrations, he served as Attorney-Adviser for UN Affairs in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the US Department of State. He is the Co-Founder of the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Public International Law and Policy Group.