The hidden histories of war crimes trials

• Corporate Author: Oxford University Press ()
• Other Authors: Oxford University Press (), ()
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Subjects: Międzynarodowy Trybunał Karny (MTK) / International Criminal Court (ICC); Historia prawa procesowego i wymiaru sprawiedliwości; Prawo karne międzynarodowe. Zbrodnie wojenne. Ludobójstwo; III Rzesza Niemiecka / German Third Reich > (1933-1945); Japonia / Japan; Finlandia / Finland; Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa (PRL) / Polish People Republic > (1944-1989); Australia; Etiopia / Ethiopia; Turcja / Turkey; Norwegia / Norway; Estonia; Łotwa / Latvia; Litwa / Lithuania; Węgry / Hungary; Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich (ZSRR) / Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) > (1922-1991); Włochy / Italy; Republika Federalna Niemiec (RFN) / Federal Republic of Germany > (1949-1990); Francja / France; Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki / United States of America (USA); Armenia
• Online Access: Zobacz publikację w repozytorium Oxford University Press (Open Access)

Description

Several instances of war crimes trials are familiar to all scholars, but in order to advance understanding of the development of international criminal law, it is important to provide a full range of evidence from less-familiar trials. This book therefore provides a comprehensive overview, uncovering and exploring some of the lesser-known war crimes trials that have taken place in a variety of contexts: international and domestic, northern and southern, historic and contemporary. It analyses these trials with a view to recognizing institutional innovations, clarifying doctrinal debates, and identifying their general relevance to contemporary international criminal law. At the same time, the book recognizes international criminal law's history of suppression or sublimation: What stories has the discipline refused to tell? What stories have been displaced by the ones it has told? Has international criminal law's framing or telling of these stories excluded other possibilities? And — perhaps most important of all — how can recovering the lost stories and imagining new narrative forms reconfigure the discipline?