Mark Lewis

Birth of the New Justice

The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 1919-1950

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780199660285
• ISBN-10: 019966028X
• Artikelnr.: 39338544

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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