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The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.
List of contents
Foreword Martti Koskenniemi; 1. Introduction Frédéric Mégret and Immi Tallgren; 2. Hugh Bellot Daniel Marc Segesser; 3. Vespasian V. Pella Andrei Mamolea; 4. Emil Rappaport Patrycja Grzebyk; 5. Quintiliano Saldaña Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral; 6. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres Frédéric Mégret; 7. Hans Kelsen Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira; 8. Bert Röling Jan Klabbers; 9. Radhabinod Pal Rohini Sen and Rashmi Raman; 10. Aron Trainin Gleb Bogush; 11. Raphael Lemkin Vesselin Popovski; 12. Stefan Glaser Karolina Wierczy¿ska and Grzegorz Wierczynski; 13. Yokota Kisaburo Matthias Zachmann; 14. Jean Graven Damien Scalia and Romane Laguel; 15. Absent or invisible? 'Women' intellectuals and professionals at the dawn of a discipline Immi Tallgren.
About the author
Frédéric Mégret is a Professor and Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the theory and history of international criminal justice.Immi Tallgren is a Docent (Adjunct Professor) of International Law, University of Helsinki and a Senior Researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute. She has worked as a diplomat, legal advisor in international organisations, and researcher, e.g., at the MPI Luxembourg and LSE. She currently studies the history of international law and gender, international criminal justice, law and cinema.
Summary
There are many books on the history of international criminal justice but most focus on major historical institutional developments. This book explores international criminal justice as it emerged particularly in the inter-war period at the intersection of a variety of intellectual projects that are often neglected today.
