Law, War and Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International Law
- ISBN-10
- 0745630235
- ISBN-13
- 9780745630236
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 225
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-10-08
- Publisher
- Polity
- Author
- Gerry J. Simpson
Description
Simpson argues that the field of war crimes is constituted by a number of tensions between, for example, politics and law, local justice and cosmopolitan reckoning, collective guilt and individual responsibility, and between the instinct that war, at worst, is an error and the conviction that war is a crime.
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- 2013-04-18
- 240 pages
- Ebook
- John Wiley & Sons
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