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Drawing the Missing Map: What Socio-legal Research Can Offer to International Criminal Trial Practice

“…A variant of the prevalent common-and civil-law analysis of day-to-day international criminal trial practice was a discussion focused 16 upon the national legal tradition of the participants in international criminal trials and its influence on their performance in the Trial Chambers. 22 The lens offered by the paradigms of common and civil law easily overshadowed discussions of the more complex contest over the control of the presentation of evidence that is played out through courtroom roles. 21 A third potential explanation, which was, however, rooted in socio-legal scholarship rather than international legal commentary, intersected with debates on common and civil law.…”

“…It focused on the struggles between power and authority invited by respective approaches to trial process. 22 The lens offered by the paradigms of common and civil law easily overshadowed discussions of the more complex contest over the control of the presentation of evidence that is played out through courtroom roles. In any system, as Doran and Jackson illustrate in their seminal work on the Diplock trials in Northern Ireland, implicit in the roles in the courtroom is a foundational allocation of power, between judges and counsel, witnesses, and the accused.…”

“…33 The study observed an extreme variation in the capacity of judges to provide, and of counsel to accept, these guidelines. 34 While efficiency remains at the forefront of discussions of trial management, the inherent struggles that played out in respective Trial Chambers were not detached from underlying matters of authority and power and, consequentially, perceptions of fairness.…”

Economic Assistance, Development and Peacebuilding: The Role of the IFI and EU Peace II Fund in Northern Ireland

“…Thus, 'production in the periphery is subordinate to the needs of the core and peripheral areas are forced into a pattern of economic specialization and dependence.' 14 This cultural division of labor leads to the formation of classes based upon political orientations in the periphery creating a situation of internal colonialism. The internal elite in the periphery can then unite behind common political and cultural beliefs preventing national unity, which results in an economically disadvantaged group of people in the periphery that can mobilize in reaction to the exploitation.…”

“…The internal elite in the periphery can then unite behind common political and cultural beliefs preventing national unity, which results in an economically disadvantaged group of people in the periphery that can mobilize in reaction to the exploitation. 15 Even though some of the communities do indeed live side by side in Northern Ireland's urban and rural areas the division of labor created a poorer periphery west of the Bann and an industrialized powerhouse in the core area East of the Bann.…”