''You start to feel really alone": defence lawyers and narratives of international criminal law in film

Sophie Rigney

doi:10.1093/lril/lry009

''You start to feel really alone": defence lawyers and narratives of international criminal law in film

Sophie Rigney

Dundee Law School

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How do defence lawyers present international criminal law? In two documentaries – The Trial and War Don Don – defence lawyers critique international criminal law, and its inability to examine interactions between perpetration and victimhood or the structural causes of conflict, its inability to determine ‘truth’, and its impetus towards conviction.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	97-123
Journal	London Review of International Law
Volume	6
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lry009
Publication status	Published - 24 Aug 2018

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