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The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law by Kevin Jon Heller [Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2011, 509 pp, ISBN 978-0-19-955431-7, £70.00 (h/bk)]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2012

Devin O. Pendas
Affiliation:
Boston College. E-mail: [email protected].

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Copyright © British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2012

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1 But also see: Bush, Jonathan A, ‘“The Supreme…Crime” and its Origins: The Lost Legislative History of the Crime of Aggressive War’, (December 2002) 102 ColumLRev 23242424Google Scholar and Bush, Jonathan A, ‘The Prehistory of Corporations and Conspiracy in International Criminal Law: What Nuremberg Really Said’ (June 2009) 109 ColumLRev 10941262Google Scholar.

2 Cf. Bloxham, Donald, ‘“The Trial that Never Was”: Why there was no Second International Trial of Major War Criminals at Nuremberg’, (December 2002) 285/87 History 4160CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Borgwardt, Elizabeth, A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Kim Christian Priemel, ‘The ‘Industrialist Cases’ and the Case of the Industrialists: Nuremberg as a Forum of Decartelization’ in Kim Priemel and Alexa Stiller (eds), The Nuremberg Trials Revisited: New Analyses and Interpretations (Oxford and New York: Berghahn, forthcoming).

5 Pendas, Devin O, ‘“The Magical Scent of the Savage”: Colonial Violence, the Crisis of Civilization and the Origins of the Legalist Paradigm of War’, (Winter 2007) 30 The Boston College International and Comparative Law Review 2953Google Scholar.

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8 ibid 306.

9 Wilke, Christiane, ‘Reconsecrating the Temple of Justice: Invocations of Civilization, Humanity, and Justice at the Nuremberg Justice Trial’, (2009) 24 CanJL&Society 181201Google Scholar.