''Crimes Against Peace'' and International Law

Informationen zum Autor Kirsten Sellars is a postdoctoral fellow in law at the National University of Singapore. Klappentext A legal and historical analysis of the first modern attempts to prosecute national leaders for embarking upon aggressive war. Zusammenfassung Kirsten Sellars analyses the Allies' prosecution of the German and Japanese leaders for 'crimes against peace' - planning and waging aggressive war - at the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals in the mid-1940s. This legal experiment is still relevant! especially to lawyers! policy-makers and scholars engaged in international law and international relations today. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The emergence of the idea of aggression; 2. The quest for control; 3. The creation of a crime; 4. Innovation and orthodoxy at Nuremberg; 5. The Allies and an ad hoc charge; 6. The elimination of Japanese militarism; 7. Questions of self-defence; 8. Divisions on the bench at Tokyo; 9. The uncertain legacy of crimes against peace; Postscript.

Product details

• Authors: Kirsten Sellars, Kirsten (National University of Singapore Sellars
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107542532
• ISBN: 978-1-107-54253-2
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law