Birth of the New Justice: The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 1919-1950

by Mark Lewis

Book Overview

The Birth of the New Justice is a history of the attempts to instate ad hoc and permanent international criminal courts and new international criminal laws from the end of World War I to the beginning of the Cold War. The purpose of these courts was to repress aggressive war, war crimes, terrorism, and genocide.

Rather than arguing that these legal projects were attempts by state governments to project a "liberal legalism" and create an international...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019966028X
• ISBN13: 9780199660285
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"