Crimes Of The Holocaust
Subtitle: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812238471
Subjects: International humanitarian law; The Holocaust; War crimes; Legal Reference / Law Profession; International; Law; Europe; United States; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust; Germany; Israel; War crime trials; War crimes trials
First sentence: The prosecution of Nazi war crimes and crimes against humanity conducted at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945-46 was unprecedented, both in the magnitude of the crimes it sought to address and in the international nature of the tribunal, the scope of its investigation, and the open character of the proceedings.
Description: "In Crimes of the Holocaust, Stephan Landsman provides detailed analyses of the International Military Tribunal prosecution at Nuremberg in 1945, the Eichmann trial in Israel in 1961, the 1986 Demjanjuk trial in Israel, and the 1990 prosecution of Imre Finta in Canada. Landsman presents each case and elaborates the difficulties inherent in achieving both a fair trial and a measure of justice in the aftermath of heinous crimes." "Meticulously combing through volumes of testimony and documentary information about each case, Landsman offers judicious and critical assessments of the proceedings. He levels pointed criticism at numerous elements of this relatively recent judicial invention, sparing neither judges nor counsel and remaining keenly aware of the human implications. Deftly weaving legal analysis with cultural context, Landsman offers the first rigorous examination of these problematic proceedings and proposes guideposts for contemporary tribunals. Crimes of the Holocaust is an authoritative account of the Gordian knot of genocide prosecution in world courts, which will persist as a confounding issue as we are faced with a trial of Saddam Hussein. This volume will be compelling reading for legal scholars as well as laypersons interested in these cases and the issues they address."--Jacket.