ABSTRACT
By examining the way that prosecutorial justice is establishing a new basis for morality, Harvard professor Kathryn Sikkink celebrates the increasing demands for judicial prosecutions and argues that they reflect a radical change in which social demands for accountability through prosecutions are becoming the new norm. Despite the controversies surrounding the development of an African Court with criminal jurisdiction, the newly proposed court would be the first of its kind operating at the regional level with the objective of addressing both human rights and international criminal law. The ratification of the Malabo Protocol and the subsequent operationalisation of the court would also open an alternative avenue for justice to be delivered on the African continent, echoing the motto of 'African Solutions to African Problems'. Through particular ways of organising subjects and erasing the conditions of their making, liberal legalist discourses shape notions of justice using particular constructions of crime.
