Birth of the New Justice - The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 1919-1950

A history of the attempts to introduce international criminal courts and new international criminal laws after World War I to repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Nineteenth Century Precursors of an International Criminal Legal System


• 2: The Birth of the New Justice at the Paris Peace Conference


• 3: Crimes against Humanity and Crimes of Denationalization: The Victory of Political Expediency over Justice


• 4: Blueprints for International Criminal Courts in the 1920s


• 5: International Terrorism in the 1920s and 1930s: The Response of European States through the League of Nations and the Attempt to Create an International Criminal Court


• 6: The Search for a Victim-Centered New Justice, 1942-1946: The World Jewish Congress and Institute of Jewish Affairs


• 7: The Genocide Convention: The Gutting of Preventative Measures, 1946-1948


• 8: Revising the Geneva Conventions, 1946-1949: Synthesizing the Old and New Justice


• Epilogue: Bleak Prospects in the 1950s and the Contemporary Period

About the author

Mark Lewis is the co-author of Himmler's Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank, the oral history of a Polish Jew who was the head of a clothing factory at the SS-run labor camp on Lipowa Street in Lublin, Poland. Lewis received a Ph.D. in European history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is an assistant professor of European history at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Summary

A history of the attempts to introduce international criminal courts and new international criminal laws after World War I to repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

Additional text

Besides stimulating new insights for those already familiar with this fascinating subject, The New Justice can be highly recommended to those seeking an entry point into the field.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Lewis
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199660285
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966028-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Medieval Eur
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Public, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history, International institutions, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law, United Nations & Un Agencies, International law: courts and procedures, International courts & procedures