Author Archives: Phil Clark

About Phil Clark

Phil Clark is a professor of international politics at SOAS University of London. His most recent books are Distant Justice: The Impact of the International Criminal Court on African Politics (2018)—which was shortlisted for the Raphael Lemkin Award for best book on genocide and mass violence—and The Gacaca Courts, Post­Genocide Justice and Reconcilia­ tion in Rwanda: Justice without Lawyers (2010). He is currently completing a book on welfare, postgenocide inequality, and reconciliation in Rwanda.

Not Nuremberg—Histories of Alternative Criminalization Paradigms, 1945–2021: An Introduction

The Western myth of Nuremberg has dominated understandings of the evolution of international criminal law. Enshrining the International Military Tribunal as a critical point of origin, this paradigm has developed a narrative of post-war liberal progress, in which a universal model of externally-delivered, individualised criminal justice was interrupted by the exigencies of the Cold War then rediscovered through various international and hybrid tribunals in the 1990s and early 2000s, culminating in the creation of the International Criminal Court in 2002. Often instrumentalised to protect Western Continue reading → Continue reading →