Thesis
The capture of International Criminal Law: politics, struggle, and expertise
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There is widespread agreement that International Criminal Law (ICL) should be practiced within a courtroom by independent, apolitical legal experts—international lawyers—who pursue justice in the name of humanity. This “common sense” vision dominates contemporary understandings of legitimate ICL, to the extent that both critics and supporters of the ICL project speak in the same idiom. However, this hegemonic vision is a recent construction. ICL was once a sphere of “high politics” and vengea...
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Authors
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+ Gonzalez Ocantos, E
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Division:
- SSD
- Department:
- Politics & Int Relations
- Oxford college:
- Nuffield College
- Role:
- Supervisor
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-9617-478X
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- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
- Deposit date:
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2026-04-27
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- Copyright holder:
- Alexandra Stafford
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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