Writings

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 ...

You’ve heard from Professor Rubin, a distinguished scholar, and serious thinker that there should not be an international criminal tribunal to punish crimes against ...

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 ...

Today, in the course of about twenty minutes, I will deal with the issue of accountability for state-sponsored mass murder in light of the Nuremberg Trails. Seeing the special ...

It is widely held, particularly in the United States, that with sufficient determination and application, all problems can be resolved in a fairly brief period of time. The ...

The Symposium on the Future of Human Rights in the World Legal Order that appeared in the Winter, 1981 issue of the Hofstra Law Review that appeared in the Winter, 1981 issue ...

At its session that ended in December 1980, the United Nations considered a subject that had been allowed to lie dormant for over a quarter of a century. It was first taken up ...

Introduction The most fundamental of all human rights is the right of all human beings to live in peace and dignity without the constant fear and threat of imminent ...

Source: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the 74th Annual Meeting of The American Society of International Law, April 17-19, 1980 I hope to both summarize the high points of ...

Introduction A profound, yet almost imperceptible, change slowly is taking place among the nations of earth. A burgeoning awareness exists that the vital resources of this ...

Rükerstattung Nach Den Gesetzen Der Alliierten Mäcthe by Walter Schwartz (Munich: C.H. Beck. 1974) Pp. 394. When Justice Robert H. Jackson, the US Prosecutor, stood before ...

I. Introduction There are times in the affairs of nations when preference for the stability of the traditional must yield to the imperatives of the present. The existing ...

I. Introduction As the United Nations Special Committee on the Question of Defining Aggression opened its sixth annual session and 100th meeting in Geneva [1] on April 25, ...

We are reminded by a distinguished former judge of the High Court of Calcutta, that it is a timeless axiom of justice without which social life is unthinkable, that a wrong ...

The formulation of rules by which wars should be conducted has occupied belligerents for hundreds of years, yet man remains a primitive in governing what is the most primitive ...

West Germany: Supreme Court Bars Claims of Forced Laborers Against German Industrial Concerns—The Federal Republic of Germany was one of sixty-five nations that ratified the ...