Congo Trials in the International Criminal Court

Richard Gaskins is Joseph M. Proskauer Professor of Law and Social Welfare at Brandeis University. He spent the past decade designing and directing student exchange programs in The Hague, which combined academic theory with hands-on practicums in courts and NGO's. He holds a Ph.D. (Philosophy) and J.D. from Yale University.

• Part I. A laboratory for global justice; Part II. Testing a new court: 1. Spreading justice to distant conflicts; 2. Balancing politics, morality, and culture; Part III. Back in Ituri: 3. Ituri in the web of chaos: the macro view; 4. Structures of local conflict: the micro view; Part IV. The bridge to the Hague: 5. Battling impunity in Ituri; 6. ICC structures, dynamics, tensions; Part V. The Congo trials: 7. The trial of Thomas Lubanga; 8. The trial of Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo; 9. The trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba; Part VI. Observations; Postscript; Index.

'Richard Gaskins provides a fine introduction to the workings of the International Criminal Court in this immensely readable account of some of the first prosecutions, presenting the legal dimension but also the drama both inside and outside the courtroom in this remarkable laboratory of international justice.' William A. Schabas, Middlesex University London