Bringing a sociologist's insight to legal institutions and narratives, this book is an innovative and timely sociological contribution to current concerns regarding critical cosmopolitanism, human rights and crimes against humanity.

Chapter 1 Cosmopolitan Law; Chapter 2 Individual Responsibility and Cosmopolitan Law; Chapter 3 Crimes Against Humanity; Chapter 4 Peace, Security and Justice in the Former Yugoslavia; Chapter 5 The Trials of Blaskic and Tadic at the ICTY; Chapter 6 The Sawoniuk Trial; Chapter 7 Irving v Lipstadt and the Legal Construction of Authoritative Cosmopolitan Narrative; Chapter 8 Conclusion;