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2 - Unintended justice: the United Nations Security Council and international criminal governance

from PART 1 - International criminal justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2011

By
James Cockayne
Edited by
Adam Crawford
James Cockayne
Affiliation:
Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation, New York
Adam Crawford
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Introduction

In the last two decades, the United Nations (UN) Security Council has – almost accidentally – created the rudiments of a system of international criminal justice. This chapter explores the Security Council's development of these foundations of a system of international criminal justice and its unintended consequences. In both investigation and fact-finding, and in its sanctions practice, the Council's approach has moved in the last twenty years from one based on interstate and diplomatic tools towards arrangements that more closely resemble criminal justice tools found at the national level. And in each case, this has led to calls for similar procedural norms that govern criminal justice at the national level – such as due process and the need for an impartial decision-maker – to govern the use of these tools at the international level.

The relationship between the Security Council and the development of international criminal justice tools is a surprisingly under-studied question. While there have been numerous examinations in recent years of the Security Council's human rights and rule of law obligations (Clapham 2006; Chesterman 2008, 2009; Flynn 2006; Wood 2006), most of these studies are confined to theoretical examinations of the application of international law to the Council, or its subsidiary organs of the Council (see Goldstone and Smith 2008 and Zappalà 2003 on international criminal tribunals; and see Farrall 2007 on sanctions mechanisms).

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International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance
Convergence and Divergence in Global, National and Local Settings
 , pp. 41 - 66
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

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