The hidden histories of war crimes trials / / Kevin Heller and Gerry Simpson [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (463 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 341.690268
• Soggetto topico: War crime trials
• Persona (resp. second.): HellerKevin Jon; SimpsonGerry J.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legislation; List of Contributors; 1. History of Histories; 1. PRE-HISTORIES: FROM VON HAGENBACH TO THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE; 2. The Trial of Peter von Hagenbach: Reconciling History, Historiography and International Criminal Law; 3. A Supranational Criminal Tribunal for the Colonial Era: The Franco-Siamese Mixed Court; 4. The Ottoman State Special Military Tribunal for the Genocide of the Armenians: 'Doing Government Business'; 2. EUROPEAN HISTORIES I: PROSECUTING ATROCITY ; 5. Justice for No-Land's Men? The United States Military Trials against Spanish Kapos in Mauthausen and Universal Jurisdiction6. A Narrative of Justice and the (Re)Writing of History: Lessons Learned from World War II French Trials; 7. The Bordeaux Trial: Prosecuting the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre; 3. EUROPEAN HISTORIES II: AMERICANS IN EUROPE; 8. Capitalism's Victor's Justice? The Hidden Stories Behind the Prosecution of Industrialists Post-WWII; 9. Eisentrager's (Forgotten) Merits: Military Jurisdiction and Collateral Habeas; 4. EUROPEAN HISTORIES III: CONTEMPORARY TRIALS ; 10. Making Peace with the Past: The Federal Republic of Germany's Accountability for World War II Massacres Before the Italian Supreme Court: The Civitella Case11. Trying Communism through International Criminal Law? The Experiences of the Hungarian Historical Justice Trials; 12. Competing Histories: Soviet War Crimes in the Baltic States; 13. Universal Jurisdiction: Conflict and Controversy in Norway; 5. AFRICAN HISTORIES; 14. Reading the Shadows of History: The Turkish and Ethiopian 'Internationalized' Domestic Crime Trials ; 15. Mass Trials and Modes of Criminal Responsibility for International Crimes: The Case of Ethiopia6. SOUTHERN HISTORIES; 16. War Crimes Trials, 'Victor's Justice' and Australian Military Justice in the Aftermath of the Second World War; 17. Justice for 'Asian' Victims: The Australian War Crimes Trials of the Japanese, 1945-51; 18. Dirty War Crimes: Jurisdictions of Memory and International Criminal Law; 7. HISTORIES OF A TYPE: EXCAVATING THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION; 19. The Crime of Aggression: From the Trial of Takashi Sakai, August 1946, to the Kampala Review Conference on the ICC in 2010 ; 20. 'Germans are the Lords and Poles are the Servants': The Trial of Arthur Greiser in Poland, 194621. The Finnish War-Responsibility Trial in 1945-6: The Limits of Ad Hoc Criminal Justice?; Index; Footnotes; Ch01fn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Ch05fn; Ch06fn; Ch07fn; Ch08fn; Ch09fn; Ch10fn; Ch11fn; Ch12fn; Ch13fn; Ch14fn; Ch15fn; Ch16fn; Ch17fn; Ch18fn; Ch19fn; Ch20fn; Ch21fn
• Sommario/riassunto: Several war crimes trials are well-known to scholars, but others have received far less attention. This book assesses a number of these little-studied trials to recognise institutional innovations, clarify doctrinal debates, and identify their general relevance to the development of international criminal law.
• Titolo autorizzato: The hidden histories of war crimes trials
• ISBN: 0-19-175151-0; 0-19-165320-9; 0-19-165082-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910138974003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II