War Crimes : The Legacy of Nuremberg

by Cooper, Belinda; Horne, William W.

• ISBN13: 9781575000091
• ISBN10: 1575000091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Summary

Featuring transcripts from the original testimony, this work accompanies Court TV's 12-hour documentary on the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials. Photos.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(4)
Richard J. Goldstone
Introduction	11	(6)
Part I Nuremberg: The Precedent	17	(98)
Introduction	17	(3)
Remembering Nuremberg	20	(12)
Bernard Meltzer
Nuremberg: A Prosecutor's Perspective	32	(8)
Benjamin Ferencz
A Call for Reasoned Justice	40	(4)
Stephen G. Breyer
Nuremberg and Its Legacy, Fifty Years Later	44	(11)
Ruti Teitel
The Significance of Nuremberg	55	(12)
Edward M. Wise
Nuremberg: A Cold War Conflict of Interest	67	(20)
Peter Maguire
Nuremberg and the Germans	87	(20)
Jorg Friedrich
A Half Century of Silence: The Politics of Law	107	(8)
Diane Orentlicher
Part II The Legacy: The International Community Confronts War Crimes	115	(160)
Introduction	115	(5)
THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS FOR FORMER YUGOSLAVIA AND RWANDA--BACKGROUND AND PROCESS	120	(48)
The Real Trial of the Century	120	(19)
William Horne
Documenting Horror: The Administration of the Rwandan Genocide	139	(15)
Alison des Forges
Internationalizing Civil War	154	(5)
Diane Orentlicher
Rape Under International Law	159	(9)
Patricia Viseur-Sellers
WHY AN INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL? ANALYSIS AND ALTERNATIVES TO INTERNATIONAL ADJUDICATION	168	(107)
War Crimes Trials: Who Should Do Them--and How	168	(15)
Neil Kritz
Ethnicity and Conflict in Africa: The Methods Behind the Madness	183	(28)
Bill Berkeley
Justice in the Wake of Genocide: Rwanda	211	(18)
Madeline Morris
Only a War Crimes Tribunal: Triumph of the "International Community," Pain of the Survivors	229	(15)
Julie Mertus
When Prosecution Is Not Possible: Alternative Means of Seeking Accountability for War Crimes	244	(21)
Tim Phillips
Mary Albon
Suing for Genocide in the United States: The Case of Jane Doe v. Radovan Karadzic	265	(10)
Beth Stephens
Jennifer Green
Part III Nuremberg and Beyond	275	(48)
Introduction	275	(1)
Tipping the Scales of Justice	276	(15)
Tina Rosenberg
The Nuremberg Legacy: Historical Assessment	291	(20)
M. Cherif Bassiouni
Toward a Permanent International Criminal Court	311	(12)
Donna Axel
Epilogue	323	(8)
Appendix	331	(16)
The International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia	331	(4)
The International Tribunal for Rwanda	335	(3)
Documentary Excerpts	338	(9)
Contributors	347