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Politics, anti-politics, international justice: language and power in the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Tim Kelsall

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Abstract

For most people the law's power manifests itself... in the details of legal practice, in the thousands of mini-dramas re-enacted every day in lawyers' offices, police stations, and courthouses around the country. The dominant element in almost every one of these mini-dramas is language. To the extent that power is realized, exercised, abused or challenged in such events, the means are primarily linguistic(1).

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Author(s): Kelsall T

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Review of International Studies

Year: 2006

Volume: 32

Issue: 4

Pages: 587-602

ISSN (print): 0260-2105

ISSN (electronic): 1469-9044

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0260210506007170

DOI: 10.1017/S0260210506007170

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