
Dr Sara Dezalay
Lecturer in International Relations
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I am a Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Law and Politics, with a background in international law and politics.
My research focuses on legal globalization dynamics. I adopt a broad historical focus to connect the transnational legal dynamics to the reshaping of international and national politics, with a specific interest in the position of the African South in globalization. My research uses a micro-level approach that relates legal transformations to professional practices, the trajectories of lawyers and the production and circulation of legal knowledge.
My empirical work connects multiple sites of deployment of legal globalization: from transnational practices of adjudication of public and economic disputes, the operations of international criminal courts through to the national level in postcolonial settings in the African South. In my current projects I focus particularly on the role of law and lawyers in extractive economies on the African continent.
Parallel to my position at the Cardiff School of Law and Politics, I am a Visiting Fellow at King's College London, a Senior Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto, and an Affiliate researcher at the Cluster of Excellence 'The formation of normative orders' at the Goethe Universität, Frankfurt.
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Education and qualifications
2011 - PhD of Laws of the Department of Law of the European University Institute, Florence
2006 - Master of Research of Laws of the European University Institute of Florence
2005 - Master of Research in Political Science of International Relations, Institute of Political Sciences of Paris, France, with distinction
2004 - M.A. of the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris, France
2002 - M.A. of Law, Major in public and international law. University Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France
2001 - B.A. of Law University Panthéon-Assas, Paris II, France
Career Overview
Current appointments
Sept. 2016- Lecturer in Law and International Relations, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, United Kingdom
2016- Associate Researcher, Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
2016- Visiting Fellow, Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, Kings College London
2016-2019 Senior Researcher, Global Justice Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
2013-2016 Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
2014- Assistant editor Journal of intervention and state building
2002- Free-lance translator (English-French) of academic and policy publications
Previous appointments
2015-2016 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Law and Society Annual Meeting
2014-2015 Guest Lecturer at the Goethe Universität (Winter)
2011-2013 Postdoctoral fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
2011-2013 Guest lecturer at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (Fall)
2012 Guest lecturer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (Spring)
2009-2011 Fixed term lecturer and researcher (Attachée temporaire d’enseignement et de recherches -A.T.E.R.) at the Institute of Political Sciences of Lille, France
2010-2011 Guest lecturer at the HEC School of management of Paris
2009-2011 Guest lecturer at the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris (Sciences-Po)
2007 Visiting doctoral researcher at the Hauser Global Law Program of New York University (Fall)
2006-2009 Research assistant of Prof. W. Sadurski, Law Department, European University Institute
2005-2011 Doctoral Researcher at the European University Institute
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Prizes and distinctions
2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Program of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada
2011-2013 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Canada Centre for Global Security Studies, University of Toronto
2006 Finalist, European Law Moot Court Competition
1996 Grantee of the Strasburg Prize (Proficiency in German)
Research grants
2016-2018 British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, 2016 Round (£9000) for the projet “Who gets on the bench? Constitutional judges and the judicialisation of politics in Sub-Saharan Africa”
2013-2015 Annual research grant (EUR 5 000), Cluster of excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, Goethe Universität
2012-2013 Research grant (CAD 15 000) funded by the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies for the project “The professional and social structure of international criminal justice”
2008-2009 Annual doctoral grant, European University Institute
2005-2008 Annual doctoral grants, ÉGIDE (French ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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Promotion of research
2016- Creator and convener of “Extractive Resources in Africa: Transnational Law, Markets and Contests”, network of over 70 researchers and practitioners in law, political economy, anthropology and social geography across Europe, Africa, and North America. Submitted as a new “COST Action” (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) in December 2016
2015- Co-creator and convener, with Swethaa Ballakrishnen of an IRC (International Research Collaboration) Invisible institutionalisms. What can we see when we are looking? Law and Society Association and Research Committee on the Sociology of Law
2014- Co-creator and convener, with Wesley Pue of the Sub-Group “Lawyers and Legal Imperialism(s),” International Working Group for Comparative Studies of Legal Professions, Research Committee on Sociology of Law, International Sociological Association
Membership of academic and professional networks
2015- Association des chercheurs de Politique africaine (ACPA, association of researchers on African politics)
2014- Research committee on sociology of law, International Sociological Association.
2008- Law and Society Association
2008-2011 GIRAF (Groupe d’initiative et de recherche sur l’Afrique), doctoral and post-doctoral research network, Université Paris I-Sorbonne
2006-2010 CNRS Research Group ‘Face aux crises extrêmes’ (Responding to Extreme Crises) GDR 2651, University Paris I-Sorbonne
2006- TJ Network – Network of Transitional Justice Researchers
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Current appointments
Sept. 2016- Lecturer in Law and International Relations, Cardiff School of Law and Politics, United Kingdom
2016- Associate Researcher, Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
2016- Visiting Fellow, Dickson Poon Transnational Law Institute, Kings College London
2016-2019 Senior Researcher, Global Justice Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
2013-2016 Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of Normative Orders’, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
2014- Assistant editor Journal of intervention and state building
2002- Free-lance translator (English-French) of academic and policy publications
Previous appointments
2015-2016 Member of the Organizing Committee of the Law and Society Annual Meeting
2014-2015 Guest Lecturer at the Goethe Universität (Winter)
2011-2013 Postdoctoral fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
2011-2013 Guest lecturer at the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (Fall)
2012 Guest lecturer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto (Spring)
2009-2011 Fixed term lecturer and researcher (Attachée temporaire d’enseignement et de recherches -A.T.E.R.) at the Institute of Political Sciences of Lille, France
2010-2011 Guest lecturer at the HEC School of management of Paris
2009-2011 Guest lecturer at the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris (Sciences-Po)
2007 Visiting doctoral researcher at the Hauser Global Law Program of New York University (Fall)
2006-2009 Research assistant of Prof. W. Sadurski, Law Department, European University Institute
2005-2011 Doctoral Researcher at the European University Institute
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International conferences and annual congresses (most recent)
2017 With Peter Brett, “Who gets on the bench? Constitutional judges and the judicialisation of politics
in Sub-Saharan Africa,” 7th European Conference on African Studies ECAS, Basel (29 June-2 July)
2017 “Building a political sociology of legal professions on the African continent: stakes for an open research agenda,” “New Lawyers in Society panels” (coord. by R. Abel, O. Hammarslev, H. Sommerlad and U. Schultz), Law and society Annual Meeting, Mexico City (June 20-23)
2017 With Ron Levi and Philip Kastner “Responses to Mass Violence: Managing the Tension between the Universal and the Particular,” Law and society Annual Meeting, Mexico City (June 20-23)
2017 Roundtable panelist “Global pro bono: Diffusion, contestation, learned lessons” (coord. by F. de sa e Silva and L. Trubek), Law and society Annual Meeting, Mexico City (June 20-23)
2016 “African extractive economies and connected histories of globalization. A case-study of the ‘Africa’ Bar in Paris,” Law and Society Conference, Cape Town (9-11 December)
2016 “Building a political sociology of legal professions in Africa: stakes for an open research agenda,” African Studies Association United-Kingdom, Biennal Conference (September 7-9)
2016 “A case-study of the Africa Corporate Bar in Paris,” International Working Group on the Legal Professions, Bi-annual meeting, Andorra (6-9 July)
2016 “A case-study of the Africa corporate legal bar in Paris,” Law and Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans (June 1-5)
Other conferences and workshops (most recent)
2017 “Weakness as routine in the operations of the International Criminal Court”, Bangor University Criminology seminar (25 October)
2017 “Legal professions in Burundi” and “Legal professions on the African continent” at Conference Lawyers In Society 30 Years On, Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, (11-14 September)
2017 With Peter Brett, “Who gets on the bench? Constitutional judges and the judicialisation of politics
in sub-Saharan Africa,” Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Newcastle University (5-7 April)
2017 “Extractive resources in Africa: transnational law, markets and contests. Stakes for a renewed research agenda,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 25thAnniversary Conference, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (23-24 March)
2016 Panel chair “Labour Regulation in Global Supply Chains: Ethnography, Advocacy, Campaigning and Critical Pedagogy,” Transnational Law Institute, King’s College London (10-11 November)
2016 “Natural resources, law and Africa in globalization: stakes for an open research agenda,” Conference Law between Global and Colonial: Techniques of Empire, University of Helsinki, (3-5 October)
2016 “Professionals of international justice. From the shadow of state-diplomacy to the pull of the market for commercial arbitration,” Workshop “Trust, Social Capital and Networks: A different perspective on international courts,” iCourts, Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law (31 March-1 April)
2016 “Lawyers, extractive economies and transformations of the state in Africa,” Conference “Sovereignty: Frontiers, Engagements and Prospects of a Contested Concept,” The Transnational Law Institute at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London (March, 17-18)
2016 Contribution to Workshop “African Courts: Actors, institutional developments and governance II,” Centre de la Gouvernance démocatique, Ouagadougou (20-23 February)
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2016 - present: Cardiff School of Law and Politics academic contact point for the Cardiff-Bordeaux Joint Degree Diploma (Department of Politics, Cardiff University/Institut d’études politiques of Bordeaux)
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2021
- Dezalay, S. and Ballakrishnen, S. 2021. Introduction: Law, globalisation, and the shadows of legal globalisation. In: Dezalay, S. and Ballarkrishnen, S. eds. Invisible Institutionalisms. Collective Reflections on the Shadows of Legal Globalisation. Hart, pp. 1-24.
- Dezalay, S. and Ballakrishnen, S. 2021. Conclusion: Reading between the lines. In: Dezalay, S. and Ballakrishnen, S. eds. Invisible Institutionalisms. Collective Reflections on the Shadows of Legal Globalisation. Hart, pp. 267-278.
- Dezalay, S. and Ballakrishnen, S. eds. 2021. Invisible institutionalisms: collective reflections on the shadows of legal globalisation. Hart Publishing.
2020
- Dezalay, S. 2020. Désastre humain et environnemental au prétoire: une perspective socio-politique. In: Watt, H. M. et al. eds. Le tournant global en droit international privé. Pedone, pp. 761-770.
- Dezalay, S. 2020. Le barreau « africain » de Paris : entre Big Bang sur le marché du droit des affaires et sillons d’Empire. Cultures & Conflits 119(12), pp. 63-93. (10.4000/conflits.22193)
- Dezalay, S. ed. 2020. Journal of law and society: volume 47, issue S1. Special supplement: Wars on law, wars through law? Law and lawyers in times of crisis. Wiley.
- Dezalay, S. 2020. Introduction: wars on law, wars through law? law and lawyers in times of crisis. Journal of Law and Society 47(S1), pp. S1-S13. (10.1111/jols.12252)
- Dezalay, S. and Kroll, S. 2020. The authority of international justice institutions: a sociological perspective on global normative orders. In: Kettemann, M. C. ed. Navigating Normative Orders Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Campus Verlag
- Dezalay, S. 2020. The 'Africa' Bar of Paris. A microcosm of interconnected histories of legal globalization. In: Greenhouse, C. J. and Davis, C. L. eds. Landscapes of Law: Practicing Sovereignty in Transnational Terrain. Pennsylvania University Press
- Dezalay, S. 2020. Distant justice: the impact of the international criminal court on African politics by Phil Clark [Book Review]. Journal of Law and Society 47(1), pp. 175-181. (10.1111/jols.12214)
- Dezalay, S. 2020. Burundi. Middlemen and opponents in the shadow of the ethno-state. In: Abel, R. L. et al. eds. Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies. Vol. 1: National reports. London: Hart Publishing, pp. 473-493.
- Dezalay, S. 2020. Africa against global justice: stakes for building a political sociology on the futures of international criminal justice. In: Weill, S., Seelinger, K. T. and Carlson, K. B. eds. The President on Trial Prosecuting Hissène Habré. Oxford University Press, pp. 219-232.
2019
- Dezalay, S. 2019. From international justice and statebuilding to international justice as statebuilding. In: Lemay-Hebert, N. ed. Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 176-184.
- Dezalay, S. 2019. Der Internationale Gerichtshof Zwischen symbolischem Wachstum und wirtschaftlicher Krise. In: Kretschmann, A. ed. Das Rechtsdenken Pierre Bourdieus. Velbrück, pp. 222-239.
- Dezalay, S. 2019. 5.2 Trafigura Lawsuits (re-Côte d'Ivoire). Building an environmental and human disaster into a transnational case: a socio political perspective. In: Watt, H. M. et al. eds. Global private international law. Adjudication without frontiers. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 93-102.
- Dezalay, S. 2019. Lawyers and the 'new extraction' in Africa. International Journal of Social Economics 46(11), pp. 1305-1318. (10.1108/IJSE-03-2019-0170)
2018
- Dezalay, S. 2018. Claire A. Cutler et Thomas Dietz (dir.), The Politics of Private Transnational Governance by Contract [Book Review]. Revue Critique de Droit International Privé 11(3), pp. 728-733.
- Dezalay, S. 2018. Lawyers in Africa: brokers of the state, intermediaries of globalization: a case study of the 'Africa' bar in Paris. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 25(2), pp. 639-669. (10.2979/indjglolegstu.25.2.0639)
- Dezalay, S., Levi, R. and Hagan, J. 2018. International criminal tribunals: prosecutorial strategies in atypical political environments. In: Alter, K., Helfer, L. R. and Madsen, M. R. eds. International Court Authority. Oxford University Press, pp. 342-362.
2017
- Levi, R., Dezalay, S. and Amiraslani, M. 2017. Prosecutorial strategies and opening statements: justifying international prosecutions from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through to the International Criminal Court. In: Christensen, M. J. and Levi, R. eds. International Practices of Criminal Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 89-107.
- Dezalay, S. 2017. L’Afrique contre la Cour pénale internationale? Éléments de sociogenèse sur les possibles de la justice internationale. Politique Africaine 2(146), pp. 165-182. (10.3917/polaf.146.0165)
- Levi, R., Dezalay, S. and Amiraslani, M. 2017. Prosecutorial strategies and opening statements: justifying international prosecutions from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through to the International Criminal Court. Comparativ: Journal for Global History and Comparative Social Science 26(4), pp. 58-73.
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Building a political sociology of legal professions in Africa: stakes for an open research agenda. Social Science Research Network (10.2139/ssrn.3012719)
- Dezalay, S. 2017. African extractive economies and connected histories of globalization: a case study of the 'Africa' bar in Paris. SSRN (10.2139/ssrn.3004973)
- Dezalay, S. and Dezalay, Y. 2017. Professionals of international justice: from the shadow of state diplomacy to the pull of the market for commercial arbitration. In: D'Aspremont, J. et al. eds. International Law as a Profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 311-337.
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Weakness as routine in the operations of the Intentional Criminal Court. International Criminal Law Review 17(2), pp. 281-301. (10.1163/15718123-01702004)
- Dezalay, S. 2017. The role of international NGOs in the emergence of the field of transitional justice: a case-study of the International Center for Transitional Justice. In: Lawther, C., Moffett, L. and Jacobs, D. eds. Research Handbook on Transitional Justice. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 202-220.
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Lawyers? Empire in the (African) colonial margins. International Journal of the Legal Profession 24(1), pp. 25-32. (10.1080/09695958.2016.1232198)
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Chapitre 1 : La Commission Européenne et les crises eléments de sociogenèse d'un Marché Européen de la Pacification. In: Bazin, A. and Tenenbaum, C. eds. L'Union européenne et la paix. Presses de Sciences Po, pp. 17-37.
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Louis Ignacio-Pinto. Galerie des internationalistes
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Isaac Forster. Galerie des internationalistes
- Dezalay, S. 2017. Fatoumata Dembélé Diarra trajectory of a Malian magistrate and civil society advocate to the international criminal court. In: Dawuni, J. and Kuenyehia, A. eds. African Women Judges in International Courts. Unveiled narratives. Routledge, pp. 77-97.
2016
- Dezalay, S. 2016. The social and professional structure of international justice: from scholarly insiders to the pull of multinational corporate law firms. Social Science Research Network (10.2139/ssrn.2848962)
- Dezalay, S. 2016. Répondre aux crises. Gouvernement et action publique 2(2), pp. 31-50. (10.3917/gap.162.0031)
- Levi, R., Hagan, J. and Dezalay, S. 2016. International courts in atypical political environments: the interplay of prosecutorial strategy, evidence and court authority in international criminal law. Law and Contemporary Problems 79(1), pp. 289-314.
2015
- Dezalay, S. and Karekwaivanane, G. 2015. Juristes, Faiseurs d'État. Politique Africaine Vol. 138. Karthala.
- Lima, J. and Dezalay, S. 2015. La «cause» de la justice de transition dans le Burundi de l'après-conflit. Critique Internationale 67(2), pp. 51-65. (10.3917/crii.067.0051)
- Dezalay, S. 2015. Les juristes en Afrique: entre trajectoires d'État, sillons d'empire et mondialisation. Politique Africaine 138, pp. 5-23.
- Dezalay, S. 2015. David Bosco, Rough Justice: the International Criminal Court in a world of power politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014 [Book Review]. International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis
2014
- Bergamaschi, I.et al. 2014. Introduction: Rwanda 20 years after the genocide: reflecting on intervention and reconciliation. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 8(4), pp. 273-279. (10.1080/17502977.2014.964453)
- Dezalay, S. 2014. Thomas Medvetz, Think tanks in America (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012) [Book Review]. Critique Internationale 2014/1(62), pp. 141-145. (10.3917/crii.062.0141)
2012
- Dezalay, S. 2012. Lawyering war or talking peace? On militant usages of the law in the resolution of internal armed conflicts: a case study of International Alert. In: Dezalay, Y. and Garth, B. G. eds. Lawyers and the Construction of Transnational Justice. Law, development and globalization Routledge, pp. 60-83.
- Dezalay, S. 2012. Commentaire de la résolution 1464, du 4 février 2003, portant sur la situation en Côte d'Ivoire. In: Decaux, E., Lemay-Hbert, N. and Placidi-Frot, D. eds. Les grandes résolutions du Conseil de sécurité. Dalloz, pp. 330-339.
2011
- Dezalay, S. 2011. Revamping law by circumventing the state: Non-governmental organizations in the international management of social violence on the African continent. PhD Thesis, European University Institute.
2008
- Dezalay, S., Levi, R. and Hagan, J. 2008. Pacifier et Punir (2). La force du droit international et le marché de la paix. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales.
- Dezalay, S., Levi, R. and Hagan, S. 2008. Pacifier et Punir (1). Les crimes de guerre et l'ordre juridique international. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales.
- Dezalay, S., Bourdieu, J. and Poupeau, J. 2008. Prologue de la rédaction. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 173(3), pp. 4-5.
- Dezalay, S. 2008. Trend Report. Crimes de guerre et politiques impériales. L'espace académique américain entre droit et politique. Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 173(3), pp. 44-61. (10.3917/arss.173.0044)
- Dezalay, S. 2008. Des droits de l?homme au marché du développement. Note de recherche sur le champ faible de la gestion de conflits armés. Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 174(4), pp. 70-79. (10.3917/arss.174.0068)
2007
- Dezalay, S. 2007. D'une mise en récit militante de la crise ivoirienne: 'gérer' un conflit armé comme une 'cause' juridique. Étude du cas d'Amnesty International. Critique Internationale 36(3), pp. 55-70.
2005
- Dezalay, S. and Bergamaschi, I. 2005. Dilemmes et ambiguïtés de la sortie de crise par la voie multilatérale en Afrique: le cas de l'Organisation des Nations unies en Côte d'Ivoire. Les Champs de Mars 17, pp. 53-73.
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Undergraduate module “International Law in a changing world” (Spring term - from 2017)
Undergraduate module "Global political economy" (Fall term - from 2017)
Post-graduate module, “Just War, Humanitarian Intervention and Global Justice” (Spring term 2017)
Current research projects
My research deploys an approach that emphasizes the ‘interconnectedness’ (to use Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s concept) of the international and national dimensions of legal globalization. I use this broad focus to emphasize how current legal transformations build out of longer trends and interconnections between international and national spaces. I focus particularly on the way contests between human rights, politics and economics are translated into legal disputes and institutional developments. In this research, I adopt a micro-level approach focused on professional practices to trace the production and circulation of legal knowledge across different transnational and national levels. My empirical work connects multiple and complementary scales of analysis: the evolution of transnational adjudication practices (1), the relations between law and diplomacy in the expansion of international justice (2) and the impact of legal globalization on law and institutions in the African South (3).
(1) Law and diplomacy in the expansion of international justice
This aspect of my research traces circulations and cross-pollination dynamics between transnational practices of conflict management variously institutionalized as state adjudication, commercial and investment arbitration and human rights justice. It puts the agents invested in international justice and their practices at the forefront: its cue is that far from being a side phenomenon, the professional assets accumulated collectively by these agents contribute to shaping the space of international justice, both in terms of its potential markets and its social credibility.
Key publications include:
1. (2017) “Professionals of international justice. From the shadow of state diplomacy to the pull of the market of arbitration,” with the contribution of Yves Dezalay, in A. Nollkaemper, J. d’Aspremont, W. Werner and T. Gazzini (eds.), International Law as a Profession, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
2. (2008) With Ron Levi and John Hagan, Pacify and Punish (2). The Force of International Law and the Peace Market (in French: Pacifier et Punir (2). La force du droit international et le marché de la paix) Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 174(4), 112 p. and Pacify and Punish (1). War crimes and the international juridical order (in French: Pacifier et Punir (1). Les crimes de guerre et l’ordre juridique international), Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 173(3), 128 p.
(2) International criminal justice and contested expertise on conflict resolution and peace-building
In this aspect of my work, I look at the debated unevenness of international justice, and the variable authority of regimes and institutions of international dispute settlement. I connect the revival of international justice from the 1990s to parallel and earlier developments in national fields of power and in transformations of policy expertise on the state, the role of law in development and international practices of intervention.
Key publications include:
1. (2017) With Ron Levi and Michael Amiraslani, “Prosecutorial Strategies and Opening Statements: Justifying International Prosecutions from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg through to the International Criminal Court,” Comparativ: Journal for Global History and Comparative Social Science, 26, pp. 58-72
2. (2016) “Weakness as routine in the operations of the International Criminal Court,” International Criminal Law Review, 17, pp. 1-21
3. (2016) “Responding to crises. Managing crises through instruments: from the European Commission to justice reforms in Burundi” (in French: Répondre aux crises? Dynamiques de “gestion des crises” par l’instrument: de la Commission européenne aux réformes de la justice au Burundi”) Gouvernement & action publique, 5(2), pp. 31-50
4. (2016) With Ron Levi and John Hagan, “International Courts in Atypical Political Environments: The Interplay of Prosecutorial Strategy, Evidence, and Court Authority in International Criminal Law,” Law and Contemporary Problems, 78(4), pp. 289-314
(3) Lawyers in Africa
This aspect of my work focuses on globalization dynamics on the African continent. The background of this research stems from the contrasting discourses and knowledge gaps, in academia and policy accounts, on law and politics in the continent. The high profile of International Criminal Court prosecutions against African dictators and warlords, massive rule of law investments in conflict and post-conflict situations, as much as the formidable stakes of natural resources in the continent taint Africa with the image of a new political, economic and legal frontier. Yet, there is a dearth of knowledge on the ways these new patterns of globalization fit in the longue durée of earlier developments, including colonization. For this purpose, I have developed a deliberate field-building strategy to further knowledge and collaborations on the transformation of the position of Africa in globalization.
Key publications include:
1. (2019) “Legal professions on the African continent”, in H. Sommerlad, R. Abel, U. Schultz & O. Hammerslev (eds.), Lawyers In Society 30 Years On, Hart Publishing
2. (2019) “Legal Professions in Burundi,” in H. Sommerlad, R. Abel, U. Schultz & O. Hammerslev (eds.), Lawyers In Society 30 Years On, Hart Publishing
3. (2017) “Lawyers’ Empire in the (African) colonial margins”, International journal of the legal profession, 24(1), pp. 25-32
4. (2015) “Lawyers in Africa: between trajectories of the state, imperial legacies and globalization” (in French: “Les juristes en Afrique: entre trajectoires d’État, sillons d’empire et mondialisation”), Introduction to Juristes, Faiseurs d’État, Politique africaine, 138, pp. 5-23
5. (2015) With Juliana Lima, “The cause of transitional justice in post-conflict Burundi” (in French: “La cause de la justice de transition dans le Burundi de l’après-conflit”), Critique internationale 67(2), pp. 51-65