The Sun Climbs Slow
Justice in the Age of Imperial America
Knopf Canada, 2008
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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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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