Author Archives: Jakob v. H. Holtermann

About Jakob v. H. Holtermann

Jakob v. H. Holtermann is an Associate Professor in Legal Philosophy at iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Roskilde University. His research focuses in part on international criminal justice, particularly on the legitimacy of international criminal tribunals; and in part on the philosophy of legal science, particularly on legal realism and foundational issues in relation to interdisciplinary approaches to international law. He has published extensively on these and related issues in Ratio Juris, Leiden Journal of International Law, Santa Clara Law Review, Human Rights Review, Res Publica, Criminal Law and Philosophy, among other journals. He is currently editing a new translation of the main work of Scandinavian Legal Realist Alf Ross forthcoming on Oxford University Press.

International Criminal Tribunals as Epistemic Engines Or Why Legal Truth Is Not Sui Generis

July 6, 2017 by
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This post is part of a symposium, Doing Justice to Truth in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals. All currently available contributions to the symposium can be found here. A PDF of this post can be downloaded here. Introduction[1] International criminal tribunals (ICTs) are epistemic engines. That is, they are institutions that systematically produce knowledge or find truths. And they do so not only in the way usually recognised in doctrinal scholarly works on international criminal law, i.e. in the sense emphasized, e.g., by the ICTR Continue reading →

Symposium: Doing Justice to Truth in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals

July 3, 2017 by and
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This post is part of a symposium, Doing Justice to Truth in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals. All currently available contributions to the symposium can be found here. A PDF of this post can be downloaded here. As the field of international criminal justice has institutionalized over the course of the past 70 years, communities—both local and international—have increasingly turned to international criminal courts and tribunals (ICTs) to serve as arbiters of truth in the aftermath of mass atrocities. In turn, ICTs have acted as Continue reading →