About the Author

John Hagan is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Toronto, and Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation. A Guggenheim fellow, he is past president of the American Society of Criminology and the author or coauthor of ten books, most recently Northern Passage: American Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, which received the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association.

Reviews

"An excellent narrative history of the Yugoslav Tribunal based upon extensive interviews with the principals, Justice in the Balkans also promotes the concepts of legal liberalism."--John English "Literary Review of Canada"

"Hagan paints a nuanced picture of the way in which a particular set of individuals . . . was able to navigate the difficult waters of international politics and steer the Tribunal toward greater success. . . . Only with these kinds of studies can policymakers ensure that the ICC--along with the broader enterprise of international human rights enforcement . . . . has the best chance of success."--Jenny S. Martinez "American Journal of International Law"

"With our attention shifted from ethnic cleansing to global terrorism, we have lost track of what is at stake in The Hague, where the ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has been at work since 1994. With this penetrating analysis of the court's workings, Hagan forcefully yanks us back. The arrest and trial of Slobodan Milosevic have been the sensational culmination of the process, but other crucial trials preceded it, including those of the perpetrators of Srebrenica and Foca. Hagan traces the complex interactions between investigatory and prosecutorial teams, the dynamics between witnesses and prosecution, and how the special leadership of three successive chief judges turned an unpromising start into a forceful finish. On the path from the Nuremberg trials to the 'liberal legalism' of the International Criminal Court, these proceedings, Hagan argues, stand as a milestone in the creation of humanitarian and international criminal law."--Robert Legvold "Foreign Affairs"