The Birth of the New Justice: The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 1919-1950

by Mark Lewis

Overview

A history of the attempts to introduce international criminal courts and new international criminal laws after World War I to repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199660285
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/27/2014
Series:	Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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 assistant professor of European history at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Nineteenth Century Precursors of an International Criminal Legal System
2: The Birth of the New Justice at the Paris Peace Conference
3: Crimes against Humanity and Crimes of Denationalization: The Victory of Political Expediency over Justice
4: Blueprints for International Criminal Courts in the 1920s
5: 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 Court
6: The Search for a Victim-Centered New Justice, 1942-1946: The World Jewish Congress and Institute of Jewish Affairs
7: The Genocide Convention: The Gutting of Preventative Measures, 1946-1948
8: Revising the Geneva Conventions, 1946-1949: Synthesizing the Old and New Justice
Epilogue: Bleak Prospects in the 1950s and the Contemporary Period
Introduction
1. Nineteenth Century Precursors of an International Criminal Legal System
2. The Birth of the New Justice at the Paris Peace Conference
3. Crimes against Humanity and Crimes of Denationalization: The Victory of Political Expediency Over Justice
4. Blueprints for International Criminal Courts and Their Political Rejection in the 1920s
5. 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 Court
6. The Search for a Victim-Centered New Justice, 1942-1946: The World Jewish Congress and the Institute of Jewish Affairs
7. The Genocide Convention: The Gutting of Preventative Measures, 1946-1948
8. Revising the Geneva Conventions, 1946-1949: Synthesizing the Old and New Justice
Epilogue
Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"Provides readers with a valuable introduction to some important aspects of the complex, uneven, and sometimes unexpected development of international criminal law and its twisted path to the ICC."—Isabel V. Hull, Journal of Modern History

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