"Crimes against peace" and international law /
"In 1946, the judges at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg declared 'crimes against peace' - the planning, initiation or waging of aggressive wars - to be 'the supreme international crime'. At the time, the prosecuting powers heralded the charge as being a lega...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)
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Table of Contents:
- The emergence of the concept of aggression
- The quest for control
- The creation of a crime
- Innovation and orthodoxy at Nuremberg
- The Allies and an ad hoc charge
- The elimination of militarism
- Questions of self-defence
- Divisions on the bench at Tokyo
- The uncertain legacy of 'crimes against peace'
- Postscript