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Kurzbeschreibung Law, War and Crime examines the meaning of war crime trials and their cultural and political effects. Gerry Simpson traces the development the origins of the war crimes field from the outlawing of piracy to contemporary war crimes trials, and situates the phenomenon in the context of broader social and political forces.
Aus dem Inhalt * Contents
* Preface: Law, War and Crime
* Acknowledgements
* Chapter One: Law's Politics: War Crimes Trials and Political Trials
* 1. Concepts of the Political
* i. Deformed Legalism
* ii. Transcendent Legalism
* iii. Utopian Politics
* iv. Legalistic Politics
* 2. The Politics of "Politics" and "Law"
* Chapter Two: Law's Place: Internationalism and Localism
* 1. The Hague or Baghdad? Trying Saddam
* 2. International Space/Local Place
* 3. Cosmopolitan Law?
* 4. Negotiating the International
* Chapter Three: Law's Subjects: Individual Responsibility and Collective Guilt
* 1. Men Not Abstract Entities
* 2. State Crime and Individual Responsibility
* 3. The Liability of Men and Things
* 4. Three Eichmanns
* Chapter Four: Law's Promise: Punishment, Memory and Dissent
* 1. Teaching History
* 2. Proportion
* 3. Incompatibility
* 4. Legitimation
* 5. Discordant Notes
* i. Justice Arguments
* ii. History Arguments
* 6. Forgetting
* Chapter Five: Law's Anxieties: Show Trials
* 1. The Antithesis of Legalism
* 2. Legality and Deformity
* i. Procedure
* ii. Ad Hocery
* iii.Conspiracy
* iv. Selection of Defendants
* 3. Objective Guilt and Subjective Innocence
* Chapter Six: Law's Hegemony: The Juridification of War
