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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Mark Lewis |
ISBN: | 9780198783251 0198783256 9780199660285 019966028X |
OCLC Number: | 1005210757 |
Awards: | Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History 2013 |
Description: | XII, 346 str. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction1: Nineteenth Century Precursors of an International Criminal Legal System2: The Birth of the New Justice at the Paris Peace Conference3: Crimes against Humanity and Crimes of Denationalization: The Victory of Political Expediency Over Justice4: Blueprints for International Criminal Courts and Their Political Rejection in the 1920s5: International Terrorism in the 1920s and 1930s: The Response of European States through the League of Nations and the Attempt to Create an International Criminal Court6: The Search for a Victim-Centered New Justice, 1942-1946: The World Jewish Congress and the Institute of Jewish Affairs7: The Genocide Convention: The Gutting of Preventative Measures, 1946-19488: Revising the Geneva Conventions, 1946-1949: Synthesizing the Old and New JusticeEpilogueConclusion |
Series Title: | Oxford studies in modern European history |
Responsibility: | Mark Lewis. |
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These chapters are small monographs, most of which are extremely well researched on the basis of archival sources and bring many new insights. Yet their sum does not create a history of international criminal law, but a detailed critical commentary on many of these histories of international criminal law. It is the great merit of this book that it carefully traces the discontinuities, the fissures and inner contradictions, and not least of all the politicalcontingencies, which characterize the development of international criminal law. And nevertheless, as Lewis makes clear, the particular fragments remain in memory, surfacing again as reference points and not disappearing from history. In this sense, it is an immensely stimulating work worthreading. * Rainer Huhle, Nurnberger Menschenrechtszentrum * Besides stimulating new insights for those already familiar with this fascinating subject, The New Justice can be highly recommended to those seeking an entry point into the field. * William A. Schabas * Read more...


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