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- Title
World War I: A Phoenix Moment in the History of International Criminal Tribunals.
- Authors
Bohrer, Ziv; Pirker, Benedikt
- Abstract
The post-World War II International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg is commonly considered the first-ever international criminal tribunal. It is also often argued that the very idea of an international criminal tribunal emerged after World War I, when the first plans for such a tribunal were drawn up. This article, however, presents a very different account. It shows that international criminal tribunals did not have to wait for their conception until after World War I; nor did they come into being after World War II – they already operated during World War I and the preceding century. The article also demonstrates that the existence of such tribunals did influence the participants of the Paris Peace Conference, even though they portrayed them as novel.
- Subjects
WORLD War I; INTERNATIONAL courts; CRIMINAL courts; WORLD War II; PARIS Peace Conference (1946)
- Publication
European Journal of International Law, 2022, Vol 33, Issue 3, p851
- ISSN
0938-5428
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ejil/chac045