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Law, War and Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law

Law, War and Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law

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General Law

ISBN10: 0745630227
ISBN13: 9780745630229
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.67 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict. In his new book, Law, War and Crime, Gerry Simpson explores the meaning and effect of such trials, and places them in their broader political and cultural contexts. The book traces the development of the war crimes field from its origins in the outlawing of piracy to its contemporary manifestation in the establishment of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Simpson argues that the field of war crimes is constituted by a number of tensions between, for example, politics and law, local justice and cosmopolitan reckoning, collective guilt and individual responsibility, and between the instinct that war, at worst, is an error and the conviction that war is a crime.

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