This is a book about international criminal justice written by one of its foremost practitioners and academic thinkers, Judge Theodor Meron. For two decades, Ju

In the five decades after the Nuremberg trials, not one single international trial for war criminals took place until 1993. In that year a court was finally set

What do we know about war crimes and justice? What are the discursive practices through which the dominant images of war crimes, atrocity and justice are unders

A nuanced discussion of why war crimes occur, what can be done to bring the perpetrators to justice, and the prospects of preventing such atrocities in the futu

These essays are organised into four sections, dealing with the history of war crime trials from Weimar Germany to just after World War II, the sometimes diverg