The Invisibility of Race at the ICC: Lessons from the US Criminal Justice System
7(1) London Review of International Law (2019) 55-87
Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Date Written: 2019
Abstract
Drawing comparisons between the US criminal justice system and international criminal justice, we argue that much of the current discourse concerning the International Criminal Court’s racial politics is impoverished by being grounded in an overly thin understanding of racism that views it as wholly the product of deliberate racist acts rather than embedded in racist structures.
Keywords: international criminal law; critical race theory; international criminal justice
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
DeFalco, Randle C. and Mégret, Frédéric, The Invisibility of Race at the ICC: Lessons from the US Criminal Justice System (2019). 7(1) London Review of International Law (2019) 55-87, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3411041
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