Rethink and Reboot: Reimagining the Logos of International Criminal Justice

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

Supranational criminology has justly critiqued the domestic analogies through which the international criminal justice project has often been assumed and appraised. Sociology unveiled how the ‘global’ is constructed through transnational elites and towards maintaining the status quo. And anti-colonialist critique helped articulate international criminal justice’s failures to correct structural injustices and power inequalities. This invites further inquiries into the global justice project’s assumptions and what logos ought to drive and shape its interventions. This panel probes the nature, practice, rationales and politics of the international criminal justice project in its core and corners: who is the project for and ought this be limited to human life species alone? Questioning the centrality of carcerality in international criminal justice, can we rethink and reframe anti-impunity beyond imprisonment? Looking at the international criminal justice project’s integrations in domestic systems and foreign policy, in which ways are development aid and justice interventions interlinked and what does this reveal about the international criminal justice project? And to what extent are universal jurisdiction prosecutions driven by the same rationales as either domestic or international criminal justice and what does a re-understanding of that logos entail for the prosecutor? In their own ways, the papers each conceptualize ways to rethink, reimagine and possibly reboot the international criminal justice project as is, imagining what it could be.

Subtopic

• Topic 2: Types of Offending / Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, War Crimes (Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice WG)

Chair

• Nandor Knust, UIT Arctic University of Norway

Individual Presentations

• Funding flows and mission creeps: International criminal justice as development aid - Mikkel Jarle Christensen, University of Copenhagen; Kjersti Lohne, University of Oslo

• The Promise of International Criminal Justice Beyond Carcerality: Reframing Anti-Impunity for Atrocity Violence - Marta Campos Pinto da Cruz, University of Amsterdam

• What about the Extra? Rethinking the Extraterritorial Atrocity Crimes Prosecutor - Marieke de Hoon, University of Amsterdam

• Unraveling Speciesism in International Criminal Justice - Shannon Fyfe, Washington and Lee University; Mark A. Drumbl, Washington & Lee University