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Folktales of International Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

David Luban
David Luban*
Affiliation:
Frederick Haas of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
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Accountability for War Crimes: What Roles for National, International, and Hybrid Tribunals?
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 98 , 2004 , pp. 182 - 185
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2004

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References

1 Cover, Robert S., The Folktales of Justice: Tales of Jurisdiction, in Narrative, Violence, And the Law: The, Essays of Robert Cover (Minow, Martha et al. eds. 1992)Google Scholar.

2 Hugo Grotius, The Law of War and Peace [De Jure Belli Ac Pacis] 228, bk. II, ch. 20, sec. VII (A.C. Campbell trans., 1901).

3 Id.

4 Samantha Power, “A Problem From Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide 17 (2002).

5 I develop these ideas in Luban, David, A Theory of Crimes Against Humanity, 29 Yale J. Int’l L. 85, 124—40 (2004)Google Scholar.

6 Power, supra note 4, at 1.

7 Grotius, supra note 2.

8 Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden, act 1, sc. 4; act 2, sc. 1.

9 See Luban, David, On Dorfman ‘s Death and the Maiden, 10 Yale J. L. & Human. 115 (1998)Google Scholar.

10 Gen. 4:10-12 (Jewish Publication Society trans., 1992).

11 Id., at 4:14.

12 Aeschylus, Eumenides, in Aeschylus I: Oresteia 169, 11. 737-38 (Richard Lattimore trans., 1953).

13 Id., 11. 979-82.

14 I elaborate on this interpretation in David Luban, Legal Modernism 298-321 (1994). This is a revised version of Luban, David, Some Greek Trials: Order and Justice in Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus and Plato, 54 Tenn. L. Rev. 279 (1987)Google Scholar.

15 See Luban, supra note 5, at 124-37.