The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Charles C. Jalloh is Professor of Law at Florida International University and Member, International Law Commission. He has published widely on issues of international criminal justice, and in 2018, was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in International Law at Lund University and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sweden. His prior work experience includes as a legal adviser in the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. He is lead editor of the Consolidated Legal Texts for the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2007), The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy (2013) and four volumes of The Law Reports of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (2012-2020). He holds degrees from Guelph, McGill, Oxford, and a PhD in international law, from University of Amsterdam.

'… the book provides a solid foundation on which future scholarship on the SCSL's legacy can build.' Eleanor Thompson, International Criminal Law Review

• Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. The sierra leone conflict; 3. The establishment of the special court for sierra leone; 4. The special court's jurisdiction, organization and trials; 5. Greatest responsibility personal jurisdiction; 6. Forced marriage as a crime against humanity; 7. Child recruitment as a war crime; 8. Head of state immunity; 9. Amnesties; 10. Special courts and truth commissions; 11. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography/Sources Reviewed; Index.