Law, War and Crime: War Crimes, Trials and the Reinvention of International LawISBN: 978-0-7456-3023-6
Paperback
240 pages
December 2007, Polity
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- an original and compelling new book by Gerry Simpson which
examines war trials and their cultural and political effects
- deals with timely questions presented by the increase in war
trials, such as the consequences of criminalizing enemies
- examines how the relatively new phenomenon of trying
perpetrators of mass atrocity and defeated enemies came into
existence
- a path breaking book which will appeal to students, scholars and also the interested general reader