Rebel Courts

Rebel Courts is an exceptional book. The breadth of practice of armed groups collected, cited, and analyzed by Provost will, without a doubt, offer important insights to generations of scholars interested in rebel governance, rebel law, and rebel administration of justice. The book will also, hopefully, inspire more international lawyers to engage in fieldwork and with legal pluralism.

Préface
Winner of the 2022 ICON-S Book Prize and 2023 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship

Auteur
René Provost, Ad.E. FRSC, is Professor of Law at McGill University. As a senior counsel at the Bar of the Province of Québec, he has acted as amicus curiae before the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the Extraordinary Chamber of the Courts of Cambodia. Professor Provost is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation.

Texte du rabat

Warzones are sometimes described as lawless, but this is rarely the case. Armed insurgents often replace the state as the provider of law and justice in areas under their authority. Based on extensive field work, Rebel Courts offers a compelling insight into the judicial governance of armed groups, a phenomenon never studied comprehensively until now.

Contenu

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: Rebel Rule of Law and FARC Justice

• Chapter 2: Legality of Rebel Courts - Islamic State and Taliban Justice

• Chapter 3: Rebel Jurisdiction, Due Process, and Tamil Tiger Justice

• Chapter 4: The Legal Rayonnement of Rebel Justice: Recognition, Complementarity, and Kurdish Courts

• Conclusion