Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor - Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice

"An expansive biography of Benjamin Ferencz, a Romanian-born Jewish American lawyer of humble beginnings who prosecuted the Einsatzgruppen-a group of Nazi SS detachments responsible for the murder of approximately 1.5 million civilians in Eastern Europe during World War II-at the American military tribunal in Nuremberg in 1947. This biography also details the remainder of Ferencz's career, during which he worked on reparations and toward the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court"--

About the author

Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and the author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition.

Product details

• Authors: Gregory S Gordon, Gregory S. Gordon
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.11.2025
• EAN: 9780813953090
• ISBN: 978-0-8139-5309-0
• No. of pages: 528
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries