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November 11, 2000 President William Jefferson Clinton The White House Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC 20500 Dear Mr. President: Over 53 years ago, I was the Chief ...

Jerry Fowler: Welcome to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. My name is Jerry Fowler. I'm the staff director of the Museum's Committee on Conscience. The Committee on ...

After the horrors of World War II, our government inspired the world by its proclamations at the Nuremberg trials that never again would aggression, crimes against humanity ...

A statute laying the foundation for a permanent international criminal court (ICC) was adopted by overwhelming vote at a diplomatic conference in Rome on July 17, 1998. The ...

Columbia Journal of Transnational Law: Inmemoriam Nov. 1 1998 Telford Taylor (TT), gifted author, lawyer, prosecutor, professor, sportsman, musician, composer and visionary, ...

A Bird's-Eye View of the Past Century Every human society, if it is to live in security and freedom, must be governed by a system of clear laws, courts with binding authority ...

Prelude to Nuremberg When I was born in 1920, in a ramshackle cottage in a tiny village in Transylvania, no one could possibly have imagined the path my life would take. ...

Ever since the Judgment at Nuremberg, it has been universally binding law that aggressive war is not a national right but an international crime. The most fundamental human ...

The Goal Fifty years ago, on 29 September 1947 to be exact, I stood before a tribunal in the courthouse at Nuremberg and accused 22 members of the SS Einsatzgruppen of ...

Dear Friends: The first reason for this message is to convey sincere appreciation to all of you who contributed to the "establishment" in Rome of the first "permanent" ...

June 29, 1998 Nations from all over the world are meeting in Rome to form a new legal institution. They are trying to establish a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) ...

A Brief Introduction Prosecuting crimes against peace and humanity was not invented at Nuremberg in 1945. Since ancient days, the legality of war itself and how wars were ...

29 April 1998 The world stands on the threshold of closing a glaring gap in the international legal order. Over fifty years ago, the International Military Tribunal at ...

Once again, the creation of an international criminal court is high on the United Nations agenda. The General Assembly has instructed a Preparatory Committee to draft a ...

June 22, 1996 Every orderly society has three requirements: Clear laws, to define what is permissible and impermissible; Courts (civil and criminal) to settle disputes or ...

Reviewing: Yael Danieli, Nigel S. Rodley, and Lars Weisaeth (eds.), International Responses to Traumatic Stress: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Justice, Peace and Development ...

I. Introduction On December 11, 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations passed three successive resolutions designed to prevent a recurrence of some of the ...

Background For almost fifty years, nations were unable to agree upon a definition of international aggression. It was easier to commit aggression than to define it. Writing in ...