The Milosevic Trial

Timothy William Waters is Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where he teaches international and comparative law. He earned a BA from UCLA, a Masters in international affairs from Columbia, and a JD from Harvard. Professor Waters previously worked at the ICTY, where he helped draft the Kosovo indictment of Milosevic. He has also worked with the Open Society Institute, Human Rights Watch, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on issues relating to the former Yugoslavia. He regularly contributes commentary to major print and online media, including the New York Times and Foreign Policy, and is a member of the advisory board of Nationalities Papers.

Sprawling in scope yet tightly drawn, the book manages to achieve much without being overwritten. This is an important contribution.

• Topical Index ; Forward: A Trial Terminated ; A Note on Reading This Book ; I. Vital Signs: The Milosevic Trial in Its Context ; 1. The Context, Contested: Histories of Yugoslavia and its Violent Dissolution ; 2. The Forum: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ; 3. The Man on Trial: Slobodan Milosevic ; 4. IT-02-54, Prosecutor v. Slobodan Milosevic ; II. Causes of Death ; 5. Real Justice, in Time: The Initial Indictment of Milosevic ; Clint Williamson (Chief Prosecutor for the EU Special Investigative Task Force) ; 6. Real Justice or Realpolitik? The Delayed Indictment of Milosevic ; Cherif Bassiouni (DePaul University) ; ... ; 7. Slow Poison: Joinder and the Death of Milosevic ; Gideon Boas (Monash University) ; 8. Joinder, Fairness and the Goals of International Criminal Justice ; Frederic Megret (McGill University) ; ... ; 9. Difficulties for the Participants: Indictment Correct, Trial Impossible ; Carla Del Ponte (Former Chief Prosecutor, ICTY and ICTR) ; 10. Outside the Internal Dynamics of the Prosecution ; Kelly Dawn Askin (Open Society Justice Initiative) ; ... ; 11. In the Shadow of Non-Recognition: Milosevic and the Self-Represented Accused's Right to Justice ; Evelyn Anoya (Special Tribunal for Lebanon) ; 12. The Legitimacy Paradox of Self-Representation ; Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) ; III. Reporting the Demise ; 13. Guilty without a Verdict: Bosniaks' Perceptions of the Milosevic Trial ; Safia Swimelar (Elon University) ; 14. The Hague Front in the Homeland War: Narratives of the Milosevic Trial in Croatia ; Christopher K. Lamont (University of Groningen) ; ... ; 15. Another Report on the Banality of Evil: The Cultural Politics of the Milosevic Trial in Kosovo ; Vjollca Krasniqi (University of Prishtina; University of Ljubljana) ; 16. Conversations with Milosevic: Two Meetings, Bloody Hands ; Veton Surroi (KOHA Media Group) ; ... ; 17. Underwhelmed: Kosovar Albanians' Reactions to the Milosevic Trial ; Frances Trix (Indiana University) ; 18. Airing Crimes, Marginalizing Victims: Political Expectations and Transitional Justice in Kosovo ; Denisa Kostovicova (London School of Economics) ; ... ; 19. Framing the Trial of the Century: Influences of, and on, International Media ; Klaus Bachmann (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities) ; 20. The Court and Public Opinion: Negotiating Tensions between Trial Process and Public Interest in Milosevic ; Judith Armatta (Formerly Coalition for International Justice) ; Maps and Photos ; IV. Final Examination ; 21. Dead Man's Tale: Deriving Narrative Authority from the Terminated Milosevic Trial ; Timothy Waters (Indiana University) ; 22. Beyond the Theater of International Justice: The Rule 98bis Decision in Milosevic ; Jens Meierhenrich (London School of Economics) ; ... ; 23. Can We Salvage a History of the Yugoslav Conflicts from the Milosevic Trial? ; Christian Axboe Nielsen (Aarhus University) ; 24. Do Historians Need a Verdict? ; Florian Bieber (Karl-Franzens Universitat Graz) ; ... ; 25. Body of Evidence: The Prosecution's Construction of Milosevic ; Marko Prelec (International Crisis Group) ; 26. Milosevic and the Justice of Peace ; Alexander K.A. Greenawalt (Pace University) ; V. Disposing of the Body ; 27. The Parting of Ways: Public Reckoning with the Recent Past in Post-Milosevic Serbia ; Jasna Dragovic-Soso (Goldsmiths) ; 28. Antecedents to a Debate: Conflicts over the Transfer of Milosevic ; Vesna Pesic (Member of Parliament, Serbia) ; ... ; 29. The Show and the Trial: The Political Death of Milosevic ; Florian Bieber (Karl-Franzens Universitat Graz) ; 30. From Politics to Law, to Tedium, and Back ; Mark Drumbl (Washington & Lee University) ; VI. Reanimation: Designing Trials and Doing Justice after Milosevic ; 31. Two Sides of the Same Coin? Judging Milosevic and Serbia before the ICTY and ICJ ; Yuval Shany (Hebrew University) ; 32. Ambiguous Choices in the Trials of Milosevic's Serbia ; Tibor Varady (Central European University; Emory University) ; ... ; 33. Abdicated Legacy: The Prosecution's Use of Evidence from Milosevic ; Florence Hartmann (Formerly Office of the Prosecutor, ICTY) ; 34. The Spider and the System: Milosevic and Joint Criminal Enterprise ; Harmen van der Wilt (University of Amsterdam) ; VII. Biopsy: Legacies of Milosevic ; Timeline with Chronological Index ; Author Biographies and Acknowledgments ; Bibliography ; Index