The Birth of the New Justice by Mark Lewis

The Birth of the New Justice by Mark Lewis

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.

These chapters are small monographs, most of which are extremely well researched on the basis of archival sources and bring many new insightsYet their sum does not create a history of international criminal law, but a detailed critical commentary on many of these histories of international criminal law. It is the great merit of this book that it carefully traces the discontinuities, the fissures and inner contradictions, and not least of all the political contingencies, which characterize the development of international criminal law. And nevertheless, as Lewis makes clear, the particular fragments remain in memory, surfacing again as reference points and not disappearing from history. In this sense, it is an immensely stimulating work worth reading. * Rainer Huhle, Nürnberger Menschenrechtszentrum *
Besides stimulating new insights for those already familiar with this fascinating subject, The New Justice can be highly recommended to those seeking an entry point into the field. * William A. Schabas *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780199660285
ISBN 10	019966028X
Title	The Birth of the New Justice
Author	Mark Lewis
Series	Oxford Studies In Modern European History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2014-02-13
Number of pages	360
Prizes	Winner of Winner of the 2015 Bronisław Geremek Prize; Winner of the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History 2013..
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