Defeating Impunity : : Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914 /

Defeating Impunity : : Attempts at International Justice in Europe since 1914 / / ed. by Pieter Lagrou, Ornella Rovetta.

Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also cou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Charon, Arnaud,
De Cock, Chris,
Delpla, Isabelle,
Form, Wolfgang,
Graditzky, Thomas,
Lagrou, Pieter,
Lingen, Kerstin von,
Mouralis, Guillaume,
Rovetta, Ornella,
Voisin, Vanessa,
Weisers, Marie-Anne,
Wittmann, Rebecca,
HerausgeberIn:
Lagrou, Pieter,
Rovetta, Ornella,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:War and Genocide ; 33
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Chronology
  • Introduction: Defeating Impunity in Twentieth-Century Europe
  • Chapter 1 The Law of Military Occupation and the Belgian Trials after 1918
  • Chapter 2 The Claims of Belgian Deported Workers at the Paris Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in 1924
  • Chapter 3 Coining Postwar Justice from the Margins: Exile Lawyers in London, 1941–45
  • Chapter 4 The Treasure Trove of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Archives, 1943–49
  • Chapter 5 Legal Imagination and Legal Realism ‘Crimes against Humanity’ and the US Racial Question in 1945
  • Chapter 6 Filling the Legal Void: Jewish Victims, German Offenders and Belgian Judges, 1942–52
  • Chapter 7 Soviet Footage of War Crimes, 1941–46 Between Propaganda and Judicial Evidence
  • Chapter 8 From Majdanek to Demjanjuk Failures of Justice in Postwar Germany, 1958–2009
  • Chapter 9 Force of Fact: Municipal Authorities, Victim Associations and Forensic Science at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
  • Chapter 10 International Law in Action: The Role of the Legal Advisor in Operations in the Twenty-First Century
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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