Defeating impunity attempts at international justice in Europe since 1914

The law of military occupation and the Belgian trials after 1918 / Thomas Graditzky -- The claims of Belgian deported workers at the Paris Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in 1924 / Arnaud Charon -- Coining postwar justice from the margins : exile lawyers in London, 1941-1945 / Kerstin von Lingen -- The trea...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rovetta, Ornella (HerausgeberIn), Lagrou, Pieter (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2022
Schriftenreihe:War and genocide volume 33
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Zusammenfassung:The law of military occupation and the Belgian trials after 1918 / Thomas Graditzky -- The claims of Belgian deported workers at the Paris Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in 1924 / Arnaud Charon -- Coining postwar justice from the margins : exile lawyers in London, 1941-1945 / Kerstin von Lingen -- The treasure trove of the United Nations War Crimes Commission archives, 1943-1949 / Wolfgang Form -- Legal imagination and legal realism : 'Crimes against Humanity' and the U.S. racial question in 1945 / Guillaume Mouralis -- Filling the legal void : Jewish victims, German offenders, and Belgian judges, 1942-1951 / Marie-Anne Weisers -- Soviet footage of war crimes, between propaganda and judicial evidence, 1941-1946 / Vanessa Voisin -- From Majdanek to Demjanjuk : failures of justice in Post-war Germany, 1958-2009 / Rebecca Wittmann -- Force of fact : municipal authorities, victim associations, and forensic science at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia / Isabelle Delpla -- International law in action : the role of the legal advisor in operations in the Twenty-First Century / Chris De Cock
"Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of perpetrators of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also courage, determination, and inventiveness in realizing justice. Defeating Impunity moves from the little-known trials of the 1920s to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the 2000s, from Belgium in 1914 to Ukraine in 1943, and to Stuttgart and Düsseldorf in 1975. It illustrates the extent to which the language of law drew an international horizon of justice"--
Beschreibung:xiii, 249 Seiten
24 cm
ISBN:9781800732612
978-1-80073-261-2