TY - BOOK ID - 85582335 TI - The legal legacy of the Special Court for Serra Leone PY - 2020 SN - 1316836150 1316823490 1107178312 1316832589 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - International criminal courts KW - International criminal law. KW - Criminal law, International KW - ICL (International criminal law) KW - Criminal law KW - International law KW - Criminal jurisdiction KW - International crimes KW - Criminal courts KW - International courts KW - Complementarity (International law) KW - Special Court for Sierra Leone KW - Sierra Leone. KW - Sierra Leone Special Court KW - Tribunal pénal spécial sierra-léonais KW - T.P.S.S.L. KW - TPSSL KW - United Nations. KW - Sierra Leone Tribunal KW - Special Court of Sierra Leone KW - SCSL (Special Court for Sierra Leone) KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85582335 AB - This important book considers whether the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), which was established jointly through an unprecedented bilateral treaty between the United Nations (UN) and Sierra Leone in 2002, has made jurisprudential contributions to the development of the nascent and still unsettled field of international criminal law. A leading authority on the application of international criminal justice in Africa, Charles Jalloh argues that the SCSL, as an innovative hybrid international penal tribunal, made useful jurisprudential additions on key legal questions concerning greatest responsibility jurisdiction, the war crime of child recruitment, forced marriage as a crime against humanity, amnesty, immunity and the relationship between truth commissions and criminal courts. He demonstrates that some of the SCSL case law broke new ground, and in so doing, bequeathed a 'legal legacy' that remains vital to the ongoing global fight against impunity for atrocity crimes and to the continued development of modern international criminal law. ER -