| Description |
xxvii, 799 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 753-775) and index. |
| Contents |
Challenge of international lawlessness / Robert H. Jackson -- Law of nations and the punishment of war crimes / Hersch Lauterpacht -- Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and the new principles of international law / Stefan Glaser -- Nuernberg Trial and aggressive war / Sheldon Glueck -- Crimes against humanity / Egon Schwelb -- Judgment of Nuremberg / Georg Schwarzenberger -- Nurnberg Trials / Thomas J. Dodd -- Nürnberg Trial / Francis Biddle -- Nuremberg Trial and the modern principles of international criminal law / Henri Donnedieu de Vabres -- Will the judgment in the Nuremberg Trial constitute a precedent in international law? / Hans Kelsen -- Nuremberg Trial / Geoffrey Lawrence (Lord Oaksey) -- International legal theories evolved at Nuremberg / Norman Birkett -- Issues of the Nuremberg Trial / Herbert Wechsler -- Law of the Nuremberg Trial / Quincy Wright -- Nuremberg in retrospect : legal answer to international lawlessness / Robert H. Jackson -- Nuremberg Trials / Telford Taylor -- Development of international criminal law after Nuremberg / Hans-Heinrich Jescheck -- Nuremberg eighteen years afterwards / Otto Kranzbuhler -- Nuremberg Trials and the question of responsibility for aggression / A.I. Poltorak -- Nuremberg and the Tokyo trials in retrospect / Bert V.A. Röling -- Looking back at the Nuremberg Trials with special consideration of the processes against military leaders / Hans Laternser -- Nuremberg : forty five years later / Matthew Lippman -- Nuremberg Trial : the law against war and fascism / A.M. Larin -- Law of the Nuremberg Trial : valid, dubious, outdated / Reinhard Merkel -- "Nuremberg legacy" / M. Cherif Bassiouni -- Judicial inheritance : the value and significance of the Nuremberg Trial to contemporary war crimes tribunals / Guénaël Mettraux -- Nuremberg Trial : landmark in law / Henry L. Stimson -- Legality of the Nuremberg Trials / Arthur L. Goodhart -- Legacies of Nuremberg / David Luban -- Question of German guilt / Karl Jaspers -- Introduction / Robert H. Jackson -- In defense of liberal show trials : Nuremberg and beyond / Mark J. Osiel. |
| Summary |
The trial of major Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg was a landmark event in the development of modern international law, and continues to be highly influential in our understanding of international criminal law and post-conflict justice. This volume offers a unique collection of the most important essays written on the Trial, discussing the key legal, political and philosophical questions raised by the Trial both at the time and in historical perspective. --publisher description |
| Subject |
Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals (Nuremberg, Germany : 1945-1946) |
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Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
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Nuremberg War Crime Trials (Nuremberg, Germany : 1946-1949) |
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Processen van Neurenberg. |
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Internationaal strafrecht. |
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Duitsland. |
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Nürnberger Prozesse -- Aufsatzsammlung. |
| Added Author |
Mettraux, Guénaël.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Perspectives on the Nuremberg Trial. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 (OCoLC)609311608 |
| ISBN |
9780199232338 hardback |
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0199232334 hardback |
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9780199232345 paperback |
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0199232342 paperback |
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