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First edition. |
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1 online resource (xxv, 463 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Provides a detailed analysis of a selection of under-explored domestic and international war crimes trials; Offers a global perspective, with analysis of war crimes trials that have taken place across European, African, and Australiasian countries, including the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court and the special military tribunal for the Armenian Genocide; Puts these trials in their historical context, exploring their significance to the countries they took place in. Several instances of war crimes trials are familiar to all scholars, but in order to advance understanding of the development of international criminal law, it is important to provide a full range of evidence from less-familiar trials. This book therefore provides an essential resource for a more comprehensive overview, uncovering and exploring some of the lesser-known war crimes trials that have taken place in a variety of contexts: international and domestic, northern and southern, historic and contemporary. It analyses these trials with a view to recognising institutional innovations, clarifying doctrinal debates, and identifying their general relevance to contemporary international criminal law. At the same time, the book recognises international criminal law's history of suppression or sublimation: What stories has the discipline refused to tell? What stories have been displaced by the ones it has told? Has international criminal law's framing or telling of these stories excluded other possibilities? And--perhaps most important of all--how can recovering the lost stories and imagining new narrative forms reconfigure the discipline? Many of the trials examined in this book have hardly ever before been discussed; others have been examined only in the most cursory manner. Indeed, until now, no volume has been dedicated to telling the story of these trials, that have yet to find a place in the international criminal law canon. Providing a detailed analysis of these trials, which took place in Europe, Africa, South America, and Australasia, in both historical and contemporary contexts, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the development of international criminal law.-- Publisher description. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford University Press, viewed November 21, 2013). |
| Contents |
History of histories / Gerry Simpson -- 1: Pre-histories : from Von Hagenbach to the Armenian Genocide. The trial of Peter von Hagenbach : reconciling history, historiography and international criminal law / Gregory S. Gordon ; A supranational criminal tribunal for the colonial era : the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court / Benjamin E. Brockman-Hawe ; The Ottoman State Special Military Tribunal for the Genocide of the Armenians : 'doing government business' / Jennifer Balint -- 2: European histories I : prosecuting atrocity. Justice for no-land's men? The United States military trials against Spanish Kapos in Mauthausen and universal jurisdiction / Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández ; A narrative of justice and the (re)writing of history : lessons learned from World War II French trials / Dov Jacobs ; The Bordeaux trial : prosecuting the Oradour-Sur-Glane Massacre / Frédéric Mégret -- 3: European histories II : Americans in Europe Capitalism's victor's justice? The hidden stories behind the prosecution of industrialists Post-WWII / Grietje Baars ; Eisentrager 's (forgotten) merits : military jurisdiction and collateral habeas / Stephen I. Vladeck -- 4: European histories III : contemporary trials Making peace with the past : the Federal Republic of Germany's accountability for World War II massacres before the Italian Supreme Court : the Civitella Case / Benedetta Faedi Duramy ; Trying Communism through international criminal law? The experiences of the Hungarian Historical Justice Trials / Tamás Hoffman ; Competing histories : Soviet war crimes in the Baltic States / Rain Liivoja ; Universal jurisdiction : conflict and controversy in Norway / Julia Selman-Ayetey -- 5: African histories. Reading the shadows of history : the Turkish and Ethiopian 'Internationalized' Domestic Crime Trials / Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto ; Mass trials and modes of criminal responsibility for international crimes : the case of Ethiopia / Firew Kebede Tiba -- 6: Southern histories. War crimes trials, 'victor's justice' and Australian Military Justice in the aftermath of the Second World War / Georgina Fitzpatrick ; Justice for 'Asian' victims : the Australian War Crimes Trials of the Japanese, 1945-51 / Narrelle Morris ; Dirty war crimes : jurisdictions of memory and international criminal law / Peter D. Rush -- 7: Histories of a type : excavating the crime of aggression. The crime of aggression : from the trial of Takashi Sakai, August 1946, to the Kampala Review Conference on the ICC in 2010 / Roger S. Clark ; 'Germans are the lords and Poles are the servants' : the trial of Arthur Greiser in Poland, 1946 / Mark A. Drumbl ; The Finnish War-Responsibility Trial in 1945-6 : the limits of ad hoc criminal justice? / Immi Tallgren. |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
War crime trials.
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Trials (Crimes against humanity)
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International criminal law.
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Comparative law.
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International courts and procedures.
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International criminal law.
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International law.
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Jurisprudence and general issues.
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Law.
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Legal history.
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Public international law.
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Settlement of international disputes.
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International criminal law. (OCoLC)fst01784719
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Trials (Crimes against humanity) (OCoLC)fst01156320
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War crime trials. (OCoLC)fst01170459
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| Indexed Term |
doctrinal debates. |
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domestic law. |
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institutional innovations. |
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war crimes trials. |
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historic context. |
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international criminal law. |
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contemporary criminal law. |
| Added Author |
Heller, Kevin Jon, editor.
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Simpson, Gerry J., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hidden histories of war crimes trials. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 9780199671144 (OCoLC)828415709 |
| ISBN |
9780199671144 (hardback) |
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0199671141 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199671144.001.0001 doi |
| ISBN |
9780191751516 |
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0191751510 |
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