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Like Ancient Beacons: The European Union and the International Criminal Court – Reflections from afar on a Chapter of European Foreign Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Alexandra Kemmerer

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That the Law is never frozen in time and space is quite a trivial insight – but one, however, that is nonetheless particularly true for the area of international human rights law and the jurisdiction to see human rights norms respected and enforced. No less is it true for international criminal law and European law. It is, of course, true at the intersection of these three fields of the law as well, exactly the place I intend to explore in this paper. And, as we shall see, poetry, that rarely unveiled subtext of the law, is never steady in its foundations.

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German Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 12: Special issue - The Political Economy of Jurisdiction for Human Rights. Papers from the 2nd International German Law Journal Workshop, Duke University Law School, 29 Oct 2004 , 01 December 2004 , pp. 1449 - 1467
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