It will take strong political and legal co-operation to make sure every Russian war criminal faces justice, including Putin.

A rail enthusiast finds much to enjoy on this sociable journey that includes stays at hotels, singalongs and stops in cobbled ...

The legal instrument was the Nuremberg Charter. The purpose, not merely conviction but justice – “assembling irrefutable evidence” and a process to “de-legitimize the power elites of Germany. The ...

Other counsels prevailed, however, and by the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal the responsible leaders of aggressive war were subjected to trial and conviction on the charge of crimes against peace.

Here, again, there is no recognizable law-based argument for presidential criminal immunity. Summing up, pursuant to the Principles of International Law Recognized in the Charter of the Nuremberg ...

According to a press release, the draft states that there can be no justification for the murder of civilians, taking of hostages and the attacking of civilian objects. It also underlines that ...

It might be ironic, but it was none other than Jan Smuts we largely have to thank for the UN Charter of Human Rights. When I was a law student at Wits in the 1980s, one of my elective subjects was ...

The Nuremberg Charter, far from perfect, embodied his conclusions. Many of the Allies found the concepts in the charter challenging, to say the least. For common-law countries, which conformed their ...

Held over the course of 1946–48, the trial lasted almost three times as long as Nuremberg. Readers learn the judges’ extraordinary stories and distinctive perspectives. The trial’s multinational cast ...

The International Military Tribunal for the Far East, as the Tokyo trial was officially called, lasted longer than the trial in Nuremberg—it stretched from May, 1946, to November, 1948—and was ...