Damien Scalia is Professor in criminal law at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and invited Professor in international criminal law at the Université de Lausanne. After completing his PhD in (international) criminal law, he conducted post-doctoral research at Columbia Law School (New York, USA), at the Irish Center for Human Rights in Galway (Ireland), at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (Oxford University, UK) and at the Geneva Academy (Switzerland). He is co-founder and co-director of the Centre de recherche sur l'expérience de guerre.

Introduction

Part I. Meeting people tried for mass crimes

Chapter 1: Introducing a singular research study

Chapter 2. Expectations of international criminal justice

Part II. Living the penal experience

Chapter 3: Shared values and disappointments

Chapter 4: Legal narrative as the only valid narrative

Part III. Continuing the war in the courtroom

Chapter 5: Ruling politics out of order

Chapter 6: The scapegoating rhetoric

Part IV. Respondents' words in response to the belief in justice

Chapter 7. Why does belief in international criminal justice persist?

Chapter 8. The value and validity of respondents' words

Conclusion: Despicable subjects as sources of justice?