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To Catch a Dictator: The Pursuit and Trial of Hissène Habré Reed Brody

Columbia University Press, pp.256, 25

Recent years have not been kind to the campaign for universal justice. The notion that some crimes are so serious that perpetrators should be hunted down and prosecuted irrespective of where the atrocities were actually committed has taken something of a beating since the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened for business in the Hague in 2002.

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