The Sierra Leone Special Court and its Legacy
The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law

This book assesses the impact and legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone for Africa and international criminal law.

Charles Chernor Jalloh (Edited by)

9781107546004, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 July 2015

824 pages, 15 b/w illus. 2 tables
25.4 x 17.8 x 4.2 cm, 1.4 kg

'This book, a collection of essays on the legacy of the SCSL edited by Charles Chernor Jalloh, is an essential contribution to the study of contemporary international criminal justice. It contains 36 essays, divided into eight parts, which are briefly introduced into two main sections. The first section relates to the legacy of the SCSL on substantive international criminal law and the second section addresses the Court's legacy on institutional matters … Jalloh's book provides an excellent analysis on many aspects of the SCSL. … This book fills a void in the doctrine of international criminal law.' Moussa Bienvenu Haba, Journal of International Criminal Justice

The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) is the third modern international criminal tribunal supported by the United Nations and the first to be situated where the crimes were committed. This timely, important and comprehensive book is the first to critically assess the impact and legacy of the SCSL for Africa and international criminal law. Contributors include leading scholars and respected practitioners with inside knowledge of the tribunal, who analyze cutting-edge and controversial issues with significant implications for international criminal law and transitional justice. These include joint criminal enterprise; forced marriage; enlisting and using child soldiers; attacks against United Nations peacekeepers; the tension between truth commissions and criminal trials in the first country to simultaneously have the two; and the questions of whether it is permissible under international law for states to unilaterally confer blanket amnesties to local perpetrators of universally condemned international crimes.

Part I. The Expectations of the Sierra Leone Tribunal
Part II. Approach to Individual Criminal Responsibility
Part III. Approach to Substantive International Crimes
Part IV. Approach to Challenging Issues in International Criminal Law
Part V. Funding, Process and Cooperation
Part VI. Institutional Innovations in the Practice of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Part VII. Special Challenges Facing the Sierra Leone Tribunal
Part VIII. The Impact and Legacy of the Sierra Leone Tribunal.

Subject Areas: International humanitarian law [LBBS], Law [L]