War Crimes and War Crime Trials From Leipzig to the ICC and Beyond: Cases and Materials

Name: War Crimes and War Crime Trials From Leipzig to the ICC and Beyond: Cases and Materials
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ISBN: 9780890893074

ISBN-10: 0890893071

ISBN-13: 9780890893074

Edition: 2005

Authors: John C. Watkins, John Paul Weber

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This is both a casebook of selected war crime decisions by various national and international tribunals in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as well as a brief historical account of the geopolitical, diplomatic and military events surrounding them. The text is divided into six parts arranged in chronological order, beginning with the Hague Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 up to the Summer 2004 decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States, which dealt with transnational terrorism committed by United States¿ citizens as well as the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detainees held under the authority of the Bush Administration. War Crimes and War Crime Trials contains edited excerpts…

Book details

List price: $88.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Publication date: 8/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 822
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 3.190



Hague peace conferences; World War I; Treaty of Versailles; League of Nations; Leipzig trials (1899-1921)


Weimar Republic : the Nazi party and German fascism; World War II and German war crimes; IMT-Nuremberg; Nuremberg "subsequent proceedings"; other selected war crime cases - Great Britain and Norway (1921-1951)


Japanese imperialism in the 1930s; China and Manchuria; Nanking massacre; Tripartite Pact; World War II and Japanese war crimes; IMTFE Tokyo; Japanese atomic bomb litigation (1927-1948; 1963)


Israel and the Eichmann case; selected war crime cases involving former Nazis in Ghana (extradition); United States (civil damages); France (war crimes) and Canada (war crimes) (1960-62; 1966; 1980; 1985; 1994)


SEATO Treaty; Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Peers Commission Report, Medina and Calley cases; commentary on My Lai; U.S. District Court cases on legality of Vietnam conflict (1964-1975)


A postscript on twentieth century impunity; selected ICTY and ICTR cases; International Criminal Court and the Rome statute; military commission controversy : history, cases and commentary; the Hamdi and Padilla cases and the U.S. Supreme Court; citizen terrorists and the constitution; political ethics and terrorism (1990-2004)


General Orders No. 100


The Nuremberg laws


Regulation on military government courts, issued by letter of headquarters, U.S. forces, European theater


Regulation of military commissions, issued by letter of headquarters, U.S. forces, European theater


Regulations governing the trials of accused war criminals, GHQ, supreme commander for the allied powers [Tokyo]


Military government - United States Zone Ordinance No. 7


Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide


Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict


Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity


International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights


Protocol I additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts


[United Nations] Security Council resolution condemning hostage taking


United States Code : 18 U.S.C. Section 2401, The War Crimes Act of 1996


Tables of international legal regimes and war incident values