Forgotten justice: forgetting law's history and victim's justice in British "minor" war crime trials in Germany 1945-8

Authors

  • Lorie Charlesworth

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14296/ac.v2008i74.1170

Abstract

This article considers some of the reasons for and consequences of then minimal interest shown to date by academic reserachers in the investigation and prosecution of German war criminals by Allied military tribunals between 1945-48Article by Dr Lorie Charlesworth (Reader in Law and History at the Law School, Liverpool John Moores University and Visting Fellow at the IALS) published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.

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Published

2008-01-01

Issue

Issue 74 (2008)

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Articles

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