The birth of the new justice the internationalization of crime and punishment, 1919-1950 / Mark Lewis.
| Author/creator | Lewis, Mark, 1968- |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2014. |
| Description | xii, 346 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
| Subjects |
| Series | Oxford studies in modern European history Oxford studies in modern European history. ^A1092301 |
| Contents | Introduction -- 1. Nineteenth century precursors of an international criminal legal system -- 2. The birth of the new justice at the Paris Peace Conference -- 3. Crimes against humanity and crimes of denationalization : the victory of political expediency over justice -- 4. Blueprints for international criminal courts and their political rejection in the 1920s -- 5. International terrorism in the 1920s and '30s : the response of European states through the League of Nations and the attempt to create an international criminal court -- 6. The search for a victim-centered new justice, 1942-1946 : the World Jewish Congress and the Institute of Jewish Affairs -- 7. The Genocide Convention : the gutting of preventative measures, 1946-48 -- 8. Revisiting the Geneva Conventions, 1946-49 : synthesizing the old and new justice -- Epilogue -- Conclusion. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013942200 |
| ISBN | 9780199660285 |
| ISBN | 019966028X |
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