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Acoustic Jurisprudence: Listening to the Trial of Simon Bikindi
Acoustic Jurisprudence provides the first detailed study of the trial of Simon Bikindi, who was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of inciting genocide with his songs. Using Bikindi as a case study, the book develops the many relations between law and sound, and the importance of sound in legal practice more widely.
| Author(s) | By James E K Parker (Lecturer, Lecturer, Melbourne Law School). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 272 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 29 Oct 2015 |
| Availability | Available |
Acoustic Jurisprudence provides the first detailed study of the trial of Simon Bikindi, who was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda of inciting genocide with his songs. Using Bikindi as a case study, the book develops the many relations between law and sound, and the importance of sound in legal practice more widely.
PART I: ACOUSTIC JURISPRUDENCE; PART II: SONG; PART III: SPEECH; PART IV: SOUND; CONCLUSION
James E K Parker is a Lecturer in Law at Melbourne Law School, where he is the director of a research programme on "Law, Sound, and the International" at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities. James is also a music critic and radio broadc
