From Nuremberg to The Hague
Subtitle: The Future of International Criminal Justice
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780521536769
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Criminal law; International Law; International relations; World history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Legal Reference / Law Profession; International Criminal Court; Law; Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights; General; International; Law / Human Rights; International offenses
First sentence: opinion in Britain and the United States was divided on the right of the victors to bring German leaders before a court for war crimes. The Nuremberg Military Tribunal was, as Ley realised, an experiment, almost an improvisation.