Crises extrêmes et institutionnalisation du droit pénal international
Heather Schoenfeld
Ron Levi
John Hagan
The end of the Cold War has brought an increased legalization of the international sphere, particularly through the field of international criminal law. We examine how law has enjoyed this dominance
through an institutional biography of the International Criminal for the
Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). We find that through its own survival strategies,
the Tribunal’s trajectory generated symbolic and material capital that is securing a broader institutionalization of international criminal law. We demonstrate how innovations within the ICTY produced new resources and legal
tools, and formed a professional class of international civil servants who are
going on to legitimate and extend these tools in other venues. As a result, the
field is gaining a foothold despite a recent loss in momentum of the ICTY
itself. Consonant with the broader valuation of symbolic goods, we conclude
that the legalization of the international works through a logic of deferred
accomplishments, in which short-term losses are part of a gamble for securing institutional longevity. As a result, efforts to have law dominate the
international may be winning even when they appear to lose.
• Transformation des institutions, persistance du champ
• Les obligations mutuelles du droit et de la diplomatie
• Affranchir le droit des contraintes politiques
• Négocier sa propre fin
• La justice internationale déploie ses ailes