Over the course of the long and violent twentieth century, only a minority of international crime perpetrators ever stood trial, and a central challenge of this era was the effort to ensure that not all these crimes remained unpunished. This required not only establishing a legal record but also courage, determination, and inventiveness in realizing justice. Defeating Impunity moves from the little-known trials of the 1920s to the Yugoslavia tribunal in the 2000s, from Belgium in 1914 to Ukraine in 1943, and to Stuttgart and Düsseldorf in 1975. It illustrates the extent to which the language of law drew an international horizon of justice.
Recenzijos
Defeating Impunity collects strong, substantial new research, often providing the main (or only) English-language presentation of the underlying research in the history of war crimes trials. The editors achieve nuance in a sober and balanced assessment of international justice, a topic which previously has inspired cynical dismissal. Devin Pendas, Boston College
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Introduction: Defeating Impunity in Twentieth-Century Europe
Ornella Rovetta and Pieter Lagrou
Chapter
1. The Law of Military Occupation and the Belgian Trials after 1918
Thomas Graditzky
Chapter
2. The Claims of Belgian Deported Workers at the Paris Mixed
Arbitral Tribunal in 1924
Arnaud Charon
Chapter
3. Coining Postwar Justice from the Margins: Exile Lawyers in
London, 19411945
Kerstin von Lingen
Chapter
4. The Treasure Trove of the United Nations War Crimes Commission
Archives, 19431949
Wolfgang Form
Chapter
5. Legal Imagination and Legal Realism: Crimes against Humanity
and the US Racial Question in 1945
Guillaume Mouralis
Chapter
6. Filling the Legal Void: Jewish Victims, German Offenders and
Belgian Judges, 19421951
Marie-Anne Weisers
Chapter
7. Soviet Footage of War Crimes, 19411946: Between Propaganda and
Judicial Evidence
Vanessa Voisin
Appendix 7.1: Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by Fedor
Vasilchenko, the Director of Newsreel Production, 8 September 1943 (Excepts)
Appendix 7.2: Circular Sent to the Chiefs of Cinema Front Groups by the
Director of Newsreel Production Fedor Vasilchenko, 3 December 1943
(Excerpts)
Chapter
8. From Majdanek to Demjanjuk: Failures of Justice in Postwar
Germany, 19582009
Rebecca Wittmann
Chapter
9. Force of Fact: Municipal Authorities, Victim Associations and
Forensic Science at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia
Isabelle Delpla
Chapter
10. International Law in Action: The Role of the Legal Advisor in
Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Chris De Cock
Conclusion
Ornella Rovetta and Pieter Lagrou
Index
Ornella Rovetta is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in contemporary history at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Université Saint Louis. Her research interests include the history of international criminal justice and of Rwanda. She is the author of Un génocide au tribunal. Le Rwanda et la justice internationale and co-authored a radio documentary on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
