The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law, Kevin Jon Heller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), xviii + 509 pp., hardback, 135.00
Jurists, legal scholars, and historians appear unified in viewing the trial of the major Nazi war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg as the single most important event in the development of international criminal law. Conferences staged several years ago to coinc...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Review |
| Язык: | Английский |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Год: 2012, Том: 26, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 306-308 |
| Рецензировано: | The Nuremberg military tribunals and the origins of international criminal law (Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012) (Douglas, Lawrence)
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| Итог: | Jurists, legal scholars, and historians appear unified in viewing the trial of the major Nazi war criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg as the single most important event in the development of international criminal law. Conferences staged several years ago to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary of the trial often had a celebratory, even hagiographic quality. Law students around the globe now dutifully study the so-called “Nuremberg Principles,” which insist, among other things, that “acts of state” and “superior orders” supply no defense against the charge of perpetrating international crimes. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs040 |