Activating Victim Constituency in International Criminal Justice

Abstract

This chapter develops from the earlier discussion of a new normative framework on which the transformation of the international criminal trial rests (see also Findlay and Henham, 2005: chapters 7 and 8). It is a position with which no doubt many of our critics will disagree. However, we invite consideration of the essential victim constituency for ICJ being arguably as legitimate and persuasive as any more distant commitment to a global constitutional legality.