The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Bogush G.

Academic editor: I. Tallgren, F. Mégret

The history of international criminal justice is often recounted as a series of institutional innovations. But international criminal justice is also the product of intellectual developments made in its infancy. This book examines the contributions of a dozen key figures in the early phase of international criminal justice, focusing principally on the inter-war years up to Nuremberg. Where did these figures come from, what did they have in common, and what is left of their legacy? What did they leave out? How was international criminal justice framed by the concerns of their epoch and what intuitions have passed the test of time? What does it mean to reimagine international criminal justice as emanating from individual intellectual narratives? In interrogating this past in all its complexity one does not only do justice to it; one can recover a sense of the manifold trajectories that international criminal justice could have taken.

Chapters

Aron Trainin: The Legal Mind Behind A Soviet International Criminal Law Project

Bogush G., , in: The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents.: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Ch. 10 P. 260–279.

Professor Aron Trainin (1883–1957), an outstanding Russian and Soviet criminal law scholar, has played a leading role in academic support of the Soviet Union’s team in Nuremberg and contributed to the drafting of the IMT Charter and Judgment. His writings to a large extent shaped the Soviet approach to international criminal law. The chapter addresses ...

Added: October 29, 2020

Keywords: legal history, international crimes, international criminal law, international public law, international criminal justice