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This unique volume provides a detailed analysis of Australia's 300 war crimes trials of principally Japanese accused conducted in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
About the author
Georgina Fitzpatrick was the Research Fellow (Historian) based initially at the Australian War Memorial and then at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne (2009-12) where she prepared contextual essays for the
Australia's Post-World War II Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series (forthcoming). She received her doctorate from the Australian National University in 2009 and her publications include 'War Crimes Trials, "Victor's Justice" and Australian military justice in the aftermath of the Second World War' in Gerry Simpson and Kevin Heller eds,
The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials, 2013.
Tim McCormack is a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania Law School. He is also the Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He served as an international observer for Phase 2 of the Turkel Commission of Enquiry into Israel's Processes for the Investigation of Alleged War Crimes (Jerusalem, 2011-13); as expert Law of War Adviser to Major Michael Mori for the Defence of David Hicks before the US Military Commission (Guantanamo Bay, 2003-07); and as
amicus curiae on International Law Issues for the Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (The Hague, 2002-06). He was the Foundation Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (2001-10) and the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor of International Humanitarian Law (1996-2010) both at the Melbourne Law School. He is currently a Fulbright Senior Scholar, the Charles H Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Tim leads the project on
Australia's Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports SeriesNarrelle Morris is a Lecturer in the Curtin Law School and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School. She is the principal legal researcher on the Melbourne-based Australian Research Council funded project
Australia's Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series. She also holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2014-17) to conduct research into the Australian war crimes investigator and jurist Sir William Flood Webb. She is the author of
Japan-bashing: Anti-Japanism since the 1980s (2010) and various chapters and articles on war crimes.
