Description: This book examines the political and legal challenges of instating criminal prosecutions by international tribunals since their reestablishment a half century after the international military tribunals at Nuremberg and Tokyo.
Review Quotes: "In Trials and Tribulations, Carey and Mitchell have assembled a compelling array of essays by distinguished scholars. Their volume's well-crafted chapters explore the various factors affecting the outcomes of international humanitarian and criminal law prosecutions. In so doing, the collected works advance the laudable trend in recent international criminal justice scholarship toward assessing international tribunals' efficacy. The contributors offer an appropriately pragmatic perspective on the limitations encountered by the 'international criminal justice model, ' highlighting the range of impediments to international courts' achievements of their respective mandates. This comprehensive and lucid volume makes a valuable contribution to an evolving, critically important literature." --Robert J. Beck, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee