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From Nuremberg To Bosnia: Consistent Application Of International Law, Lara Leibman

Cleveland State Law Review

This note argues that international law, properly informed by the Nuremberg principles, deserves consistent application by the ad hoc International Tribunal (hereinafter Yugoslav Tribunal) in "prosecute[ing] persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia [since] 1991 . .. ." At the request of the Security Council of the United Nations (hereinafter UN), the UN Secretary-General submitted a proposal to create the Yugoslav Tribunal to prosecute responsible persons in the former Yugoslavia. The Security Council approved that report and, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, adopted the Statute of …

From Nuremberg To Bosnia: Consistent Application Of International Law, Lara Leibman

Cleveland State Law Review

This note argues that international law, properly informed by the Nuremberg principles, deserves consistent application by the ad hoc International Tribunal (hereinafter Yugoslav Tribunal) in "prosecute[ing] persons responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the territory of the former Yugoslavia [since] 1991 . .. ." At the request of the Security Council of the United Nations (hereinafter UN), the UN Secretary-General submitted a proposal to create the Yugoslav Tribunal to prosecute responsible persons in the former Yugoslavia. The Security Council approved that report and, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, adopted the Statute of …

Sensibility At Nuremberg: A Review Essay On Telford Taylor's The Anatomy Of The Nuremburg Trials, Kenneth Anderson

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Justice Robert H. Jackson's opening statement at the Nuremberg trial has justly been characterized as one of the greatest orations in modern juristic literature. Yet behind its rhetorical power lies a fervent anxiety: a desire to silence the skeptical voices whispering that the Nuremberg trials were just the tarted-up revenge to which Camus alludes.

Sensibility At Nuremberg: A Review Essay On Telford Taylor's The Anatomy Of The Nuremburg Trials, Kenneth Anderson

Kenneth Anderson