The Sun Climbs Slow
The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice
Knopf Canada, 2008 | Seven Stories Press, 2009
In this groundbreaking new work, Erna Paris, the award-winning author of Long Shadows, explores the history of global justice, the politics behind America's opposition to the creation of a permanent international criminal court and the implications for the world at large. [more]
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 The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America tops the Globe's list of the best nonfiction books for 2008.
"The Globe's Top Non-Fiction of 2008," Globe and Mail, December 4, 2008.
Erna Paris is a finalist for the 2009 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for Political Writing. [more]
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 In The Sun Climbs Slow Erna Paris describes, movingly and convincingly, the dawn of a new age of international law ... Obligatory reading for the forward looking.
— John Polanyi, Nobel Laureate
Essential reading ... Erna Paris' personal interviews with key figures in this emerging world are important and fascinating.
— Richard Goldstone, former UN prosecutor
Quite simply the best accessible introduction to the big themes in international criminal justice.
— William A. Schabas, Irish Centre for Human Rights
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 Erna Paris is the winner of ten national and international writing awards. She is the author of seven acclaimed books of literary nonfiction. Long Shadows: Truth, Lies and History won the Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing and Canadian Jewish Book Award for History.
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