Dr. Amina Adanan has published a book review on Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts (eds), Mobilising International Law for ‘Global Justice’ in the Journal of Conflict and Security Law. This collection of work, edited by Jeff Handmaker and Karin Arts, includes chapters by leading international law scholars and addresses the question of how less powerful actors, principally civil society and international lawyers, can play a more impactful role in the quest for ‘global justice’, by engaging with the law in a variety of ways. The chapters showcase a diverse range of topics and methodologies. Through a series of case studies, the book aims to provide a number of strategies for these actors to realise the goal of preventing impunity for breaches of international law. In doing so, the book illustrates that it is possible for civil society and international lawyers to effect positive change in State-centric international legal institutions.
The book review is available here.
Dr. Amina Adanan teaches International Criminal Law in the School of Law and Criminology.