CONTEMPT OF COURT A DIGEST OF THE CASE LAW OF CONTEMPT OF COURT AT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNALS AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

摘要

In 2006, Human Rights Watch ("HRW") published on its website a book entitled Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia ("ICTY Digest"). The 861-page HRW ICTY Digest contained the digests of every trial and appeal judgment of the Yugoslavia Tribunal from its inception in 1993 up through December 31, 2005. It was an indispensible work because none of the commercial entities that comprehensively digested domestic judgments into "headnotes" did the same for the international tribunal decisions. Around 2003, the author personally contacted West Publishing to ask them to consider "headnoting" the Yugoslavia Tribunal judgments. The representative the author spoke to politely declined, explaining that the audience that might use such a product was too limited to justify the expense of such an endeavor.