The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials

Author: Kevin Heller; Gerry Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199671144
Published In: November 2013
Format: Hardback , 496 pages
Jurisdiction: International ? Disclaimer:
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Provides a detailed analysis of a selection of under-explored domestic and international war crimes trials
Offers a global perspective, with analysis of war crimes trials that have taken place across European, African, and Australiasian countries, including the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court and the special military tribunal for the Armenian Genocide
Puts these trials in their historical context, exploring their significance to the countries they took place in

Several instances of war crimes trials are familiar to all scholars, but in order to advance understanding of the development of international criminal law, it is important to provide a full range of evidence from less-familiar trials. This book therefore provides an essential resource for a more comprehensive overview, uncovering and exploring some of the lesser-known war crimes trials that have taken place in a variety of contexts: international and domestic, northern and southern, historic and contemporary. It analyses these trials with a view to recognising institutional innovations, clarifying doctrinal debates, and identifying their general relevance to contemporary international criminal law. At the same time, the book recognises international criminal law's history of suppression or sublimation: What stories has the discipline refused to tell? What stories have been displaced by the ones it has told? Has international criminal law's framing or telling of these stories excluded other possibilities? And - perhaps most important of all - how can recovering the lost stories and imagining new narrative forms reconfigure the discipline?

Many of the trials examined in this book have hardly ever before been discussed; others have been examined only in the most cursory manner. Indeed, until now, no volume has been dedicated to telling the story of these trials, that have yet to find a place in the international criminal law canon. Providing a detailed analysis of these trials, which took place in Europe, Africa, South America, and Australasia, in both historical and contemporary contexts, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the development of international criminal law.

Readership: Scholars and students of international criminal law and the history of international law; legal historians

1: Kevin Jon Heller & Gerry Simpson: Introduction
Part 1: Pre-Histories: From Von Hagenbach to The Armenian Genocide
2: Benjamin Brockman-Hawe: From Might to Right: The affair of Kham Muon and the Franco-Siamese Mixed Court in historical perspective
3: Gregory S. Gordon: Peter von Hagenbach and the Twilight Zone pre-history of international criminal law
4: Jennifer Balint: The special military tribunal for the Armenian Genocide
Part 2: European Histories I: Prosecuting Atrocity
5: Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández: US military trials against Spanish Kapos in Mauthausen and universal jurisdiction
6: Dov Jacobs: A narrative of justice and the (re)writing of history: French trials after World War II
7: Frédéric Mégret: The Bordeaux Trial - Prosecuting the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre
8: Jernej Letnar Cernic: Responding to crimes against humanity committed in Slovenia after the Second World War
Part 3: European Histories II: Americans in Europe
9: Grietje Baars: Capitalism's victor's justice? Prosecution of industrialists post WWII
10: Stephen Vladeck: Eisentrager's (Forgotten) Merits: Military commissions and collateral review
Part 4: European Histories III: Contemporary Trials
11: Benedetta Faedi Duramy: Making peace with the past: Federal Republic of Germany's accountability for World War II massacres before the Italian Supreme Court
12: Tamás Hoffman: Hungarian historical justice trials
13: Rain Liivoja: Nuremberg revised? Prosecuting Soviet war crimes in the Baltic States
14: Julia Selman-Ayetey: The law of universal jurisdiction: The case of Norway
Part 5: African Histories
15: Jackson Maogoto: Reading the shadows of history: The bridges between Turkish and Ethiopian 'internationalised' domestic crime trials
16: Firew Kebede Tiba: Mass trials and modes of responsibility for international crimes: Ethiopia
17: Hannibal Travis: Cold War genocides: Failures of global justice in Nigeria and Pakistan
Part 6: Southern Histories
18: Georgina Fitzpatrick: War crimes trials and Australian military justice in the aftermath of World War II
19: Narrelle Morris: Asian victims and the Australian war crimes trials of the Japanese 1945-51
20: Peter Rush: Argentina's Dirty War
Part 7: Histories of a Type: Excavating the Crime of Aggression
21: Roger Clark: From the trial of Takashi Sakai in August 1946 to the Kampala Review Conference in 2010
22: Mark Drumbl: Aggression prosecutions outside the limelight - the Greiser and Sakai trials
23: Immi Tallgren: The Finnish war-responsibility trial in 1945-56: Flawed justice, anxious peace?
Part 8: Conclusion
24: Gerry Simpson: History of histories

Edited by Kevin Heller, Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, and Gerry Simpson, Kenneth Bailey Chair of International Law, University of Melbourne

Kevin Jon Heller is a Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, where he teaches criminal law and international criminal law. He has a JD from Stanford Law School, an MA in literature from Duke University, an MA and BA in social and political theory from the New School for Social Research, all with honors and a PhD from Leiden University. His work has appeared in the European Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, the Michigan Law Review, the Leiden Journal of International Law, and many others. On the practical side, Kevin has been involved in the International Criminal Court's negotiations over the crime of aggression, served as Human Rights Watch's external legal advisor on the trial of Saddam Hussein, and has consulted with the defense in a number of cases at the ICTY and ICTR.

Gerry Simpson holds the Kenneth Bailey Chair of International Law at the University of Melbourne. He also is currently an Open Society Fellow (based in Tbilisi). Gerry was a Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics (until 2008) and has been a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University (1996- 1998) and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (1999).

Contributors:
Rosa Ana Alija-Fernández, Universitat de Barcelona
Grietje Baars, City University, London
Jennifer Balint, University of Melbourne
Benjamin Brockman-Hawe, Special Tribunal for Lebanon
Jernej Letnar Cernic, School for European and Government Studies, Slovenia
Roger Clark, Rutgers School of Law
Mark Drumbl, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Golden Gate University School of Law
Georgina Fitzpatrick, University of Melbourne
Gregory S. Gordon, University of North Dakota
Tamás Hoffman
Dov Jacobs, Leiden University
Rain Liivoja, University of Melbourne
Jackson Maogoto, University of Manchester
Frédéric Mégret, Macgill University
Narrelle Morris, University of Melbourne
Peter Rush, University of Melbourne
Julia Selman-Ayetey, Anglia University
Immi Tallgren, Helsinki University
Firew Kebede Tiba, University of Hong Kong
Hannibal Travis, Florida International University
Stephen Vladeck, American University Washington College of Law