‘Sarah Nouwen's work presents a rare combination of a genuine passion to empirically investigate and understand the ‘what is really going on' beyond preconceived patterns of effects, and a penetrating, analytic scholarly approach that reveals any easy postures in our thinking about today's international criminal justice.' Mark Drumbl - Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law, and Director, Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University Much has been written about complementarity, to be sure, but Nouwen's voice is singular, path-breaking, and elegant. Complementarity is mercurial - it offers, but it withholds, and then beguiles - and it also generates paradoxes - many of them - which Nouwen identifies and vivifies while, at the same time, she questions the self-evident triumph of international legalism. For Nouwen, complementarity has spawned national law but has stymied national proceedings. Her work is lyrical and rigorous, poetic and poised, raw yet researched, granular but driven. Nouwen courageously embraces humanity's frustrating ambiguities instead of conveniently overlooking them. Sarah Nouwen breathes life into what was, originally at least, a pleat of law and a fold of text. ‘Complementarity is the International Criminal Court's admissibility pivot. James Crawford - Whewell Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge Under the rubric of complementarity, Sarah Nouwen has had the energy and courage to explore a difficult and variable terrain and the nerve to tell the resulting story. ‘This work gets under the skin of rules and institutions and looks with an acute anthropological eye at their real effects in practice.
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