The Birth of the New Justice

NOTE EDITORE

Until 1919, European wars were settled without post-war trials, and individuals were not punishable under international law. After World War One, European jurists at the Paris Peace Conference developed new concepts of international justice to deal with violations of the laws of war. Though these were not implemented for political reasons, later jurists applied these ideas to other problems, writing new laws and proposing various types of courts to maintain the post-World War One political order. They also aimed to enhance internal state security, address states' failures to respect minority rights, or rectify irregularities in war crimes trials after World War Two. The Birth of the New Justice shows that legal organizations were not merely interested in ensuring that the guilty were punished or that international peace was assured. They hoped to instill particular moral values, represent the interests of certain social groups, and even pursue national agendas. When jurists had to scale back their projects, it was not only because state governments opposed them. It was also because they lacked political connections and did not build public support for their ideas. In some cases, they decided that compromises were better than nothing. Rather than arguing that new legal projects were spearheaded by state governments motivated by "liberal legalism," Mark Lewis shows that legal organizations had a broad range of ideological motives - liberal, conservative, utopian, humanitarian, nationalist, and particularist. The International Law Association, the International Association of Penal Law, the World Jewish Congress, and the International Committee of the Red Cross transformed the concept of international violation to deal with new political and moral problems. They repeatedly altered the purpose of an international criminal court, sometimes dropping it altogether when national courts seemed more pragmatic.

SOMMARIO

1 - Nineteenth Century Precursors of an International Criminal Legal System2 - The Birth of the New Justice at the Paris Peace Conference3 - Crimes against Humanity and Crimes of Denationalization: The Victory of Political Expediency Over Justice4 - Blueprints for International Criminal Courts and Their Political Rejection in the 1920s5 - International Terrorism in the 1920s and 1930s: The Response of European States through the League of Nations and the Attempt to Create an International Criminal Court6 - The Search for a Victim-Centered New Justice, 1942-1946: The World Jewish Congress and the Institute of Jewish Affairs7 - The Genocide Convention: The Gutting of Preventative Measures, 1946-19488 - Revising the Geneva Conventions, 1946-1949: Synthesizing the Old and New Justice

AUTORE

Mark Lewis is the co-author of Himmler's Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank, the oral history of a Polish Jew who was the head of a clothing factory at the SS-run labor camp on Lipowa Street in Lublin, Poland. Lewis received a Ph.D. in European history from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is an associate professor of European history at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780198783251
• Collana: Oxford Studies in Modern European History
• Dimensioni: 233 x 19.9 x 156 mm Ø 544 gr
• Formato: Brossura
• Pagine Arabe: 360