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33 Stan. J. Int'l L. 1 (1997)
Assessing the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal

handle is hein.journals/stanit33 and id is 11 raw text is: Assessing the Work of the United Nations War Crimes Tribunals RICHARD GOLDSTONE ADDRESS OF THE HONORABLE JUSTICE RICHARD GOLDSTONE, FORMER CHIEF PROSECUTOR FOR THE AD HOC INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND RWANDA, AND JUSTICE OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, OCTOBER 12, 1996 Introductory Remarks by William B. Gould IV, Charles A. Beardsley Profes- sor of Law, Stanford Law School, and Chairperson, National Labor Relations Board There is no element of a democratic and open society more essential to its well-being than the rule of law. This, more than all else, is the dividing line between freedom and the despotism which has taken some of its most sophis- ticated forms of repressive cruelty in this century. The administration and application of the rule of law by principled, independent adjudicators and offi- cers of the court-those who function without regard to the political pressures from which the most cloistered cannot avoid some measure of contact-are inextricably bound up with the idea itself. When I first returned to the new South Africa a little more than five years ago, the country which Alan Paton had emblazoned in western con- sciousness with its hills beyond singing of' was taking the first of many ten- tative steps toward a political system in which all of its people could partici- pate. The path towards this objective, and through the complex thickets of constitutional negotiations which took place over a three-year period and the elections of May 1994, was strewn with both discord and escalating violence. South Africa's people, and its friends throughout the world, watched in horror at the developments arguably akin to those which a young Abraham Lincoln had described in this country more than twenty years prior to our fateful Civil War: the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgments of Courts; and the worse than savage mobs ...... 33 STAN. J. INT'L L. I (1997)

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