Nuremberg trials
Woetzel’s doctoral dissertation, on the legality of the Nuremberg trials, was published as "The Nuremberg Trials in International Law". His main purpose in "The Nuremberg Trials" was to defend the basis of the Nuremberg trials in international law, opposing legal scholars who had argued that the trials were "ex post facto" and illegal. However, he also expressed the hope that the Nuremberg trials would eventually lead to the establishment of an international criminal court.