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1. A Beginning 2. History 3. Maps and Landscapes 4. The Victim and the Truth 5. The Ideal Perpetrator 6. An Ending. This book addresses the discursive importance of the prosecution's opening statement before an international criminal tribunal. Opening statements are considered to be largely irrelevant to the official legal proceedings but are simultaneously deployed to frame important historical events. They are widely cited in international media as well as academic texts; yet have been ignored by legal scholars as objects of study in their own right. This book aims to remedy this neglect, by analysing the narrative that is articulated in the opening statements of different prosecutors at different tribunals in different times. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and looks at the meaning of the opening narrative beyond its function in the legal process in a strict sense, discussing the ways in which the trial is situated in time and space and how it portrays the main characters. It shows how perpetrators and victims, places and histories, are juridified in a narrative that, whilst purporting to legitimise the trial, the tribunal and international criminal law itself, is beset with tensions and contradictions. Providing an original perspective on the operation of international criminal law, this book will be of considerable interest to those working in this area, as well as those with relevant interests in International/Transnational Law more generally, Critical Legal Studies, Law and Literature, Socio-Legal Studies, Law and Geography and International Relations. --

Criminal procedure (International law). --- International criminal courts. --- Opening statements (Law). --- Poursuites judiciaires (Droit international). --- Procédure pénale (Droit international). --- Prosecution (International law). --- Tribunaux pénaux internationaux.

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L'année 2021 a sans doute encore montré que s'il est un phénomène dans le champ international qui incarne l'avancée dans l'adversité, c'est bien celui de la justice pénale internationale. Renouveau des oppositions politiques, contraintes des ressources disponibles, poids de la pandémie de Covid-19 : la justice pénale internationale n'a pas été épargnée par un milieu et un contexte qui affectent parfois profondément son quotidien. Et pourtant, la CPI n'a jamais eu autant d'affaires au stade de l'instance, le Mécanisme a pris des décisions parmi les plus importantes de l'histoire de la justice pénale internationale, les Chambres pour le Kosovo et la Cour pénale spéciale en Centrafrique conduisent leurs premiers procès, les juridictions nationales - en Allemagne notamment - se saisissent de situations ayant jusqu'à maintenant échappé à la justice des hommes. Les actes réunis ici reviennent sur ces différentes dimensions de la justice pénale internationale.

Droit international pénal. --- Tribunaux criminels internationaux. --- Cour pénale internationale. --- International criminal law --- International criminal courts --- Droit pénal international --- Tribunaux criminels internationaux --- International Criminal Court --- Tribunaux pénaux internationaux