TY - JOUR
T1 - International Criminal Law's Millennium of Forgotten History
AU - Bohrer, Ziv
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © the American Society for Legal History, Inc. 2016.
PY - 2016/5/1
Y1 - 2016/5/1
N2 - At the close of World War II (WWII), Winston Churchill suggested summarily executing the remaining Nazi leadership. Franklin Delano Roosevelt disagreed, insisting on prosecuting them in an international military tribunal. This is considered the birth of International Criminal Law (ICL), following a consensus that [t]he Nazi atrocities gave rise to the idea that some crimes are so grave as to concern the international community as a whole. A few earlier instances of penal action against violators of the laws of war are acknowledged, but they are dismissed as unrelated to current ICL, because (presumably) these cases are sporadic domestic legal actions that lack a common doctrine.
AB - At the close of World War II (WWII), Winston Churchill suggested summarily executing the remaining Nazi leadership. Franklin Delano Roosevelt disagreed, insisting on prosecuting them in an international military tribunal. This is considered the birth of International Criminal Law (ICL), following a consensus that [t]he Nazi atrocities gave rise to the idea that some crimes are so grave as to concern the international community as a whole. A few earlier instances of penal action against violators of the laws of war are acknowledged, but they are dismissed as unrelated to current ICL, because (presumably) these cases are sporadic domestic legal actions that lack a common doctrine.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84979889747&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/s073824801600002x
DO - 10.1017/s073824801600002x
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AN - SCOPUS:84979889747
SN - 0738-2480
VL - 34
SP - 393
EP - 485
JO - Law and History Review
JF - Law and History Review
IS - 2
ER -
