Books & ideas

Art for Justice

Raluca Enescu — 2025-05-20T06:05:42Z

International Criminal Court judges process hundreds of pieces of evidence before rendering their verdict. Artwork-tools cut through the maze of data, providing an essential artistic and visual support for the administration of justice.

The Planet in Court

Carola Klöck — 2023-10-03T07:30:00Z

The growing number of legal cases concerning climate inaction marks another step in the fight to protect the environment. What are these cases? Who are the accused? Are their effects only symbolic?

Injustices That Will Not Pass

Magali Bessone — 2019-02-21T06:00:00Z

How can we think about our responsibility in the face of past crimes whose consequences continue to weigh on the living conditions of their victims or descendants? One first step, for the philosopher Catherine Lu, would be to acknowledge and theorise the colonial roots of our world order.

How to Judge the Rwandan Genocide?

Liora Israël — 2014-02-10T08:30:00Z

Whether it is a matter of prosecuting ordinary crimes or genocide, meting out justice is a process that involves the law, legal institutions and individual human interactions. International justice is still in its infancy, and the International Criminal Tribunal set up in Arusha, Tanzania to prosecute those responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide is hampered by a number of difficulties. Liora Israël, a sociologist of law, went to Arusha for a first-hand look at some of the complications and paradoxes underlying international justice.

Terrorism from Robespierre to Al-Qaida

Perrine Simon-Nahum — 2013-09-12T07:13:16Z

Adopting an original double perspective, the legal scholar Mireille Delmas-Marty and the historian Henry Laurens summon history to the service of law in defining the elusive phenomenon of terrorism. They identify its past forms in order to shed light on its contemporary specificities.