Introduction International Criminal Law Procedure

There’s a new film about the Nuremberg Trials and it is incredible. I wanna talk about it. Any coverage of the topic requires considering the conundrum at the center of these trials. They essentially established crimes against humanity. So how could they make something retroactively illegal? In answering that question, the trials secured their legacy for international law, but the outcome is far different from popular conception. So let’s discuss what the Nuremberg Trials meant. ――――――――― *Bibliography* Gary Jonathan Bass, Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000). https://amzn.to/47y3Qcv Cryer, Robert, Hakan Friman, Darryl Robinson, and Elizabeth Wilmshurst, An Introduction to International Criminal Law and Procedure, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010). https://amzn.to/4uFD6An Norbert Ehrenfreund, The Nuremberg Legacy: How the Nazi War Crimes Trials Changed the Course of History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Jack El-Hai, The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII (New York: PublicAffairs, 2013). ――――――――― Connected videos Schindler's List https://youtu.be/rUGIHFdx5CA TeamYouTube's failure https://youtu.be/-vRGguUJIx8 Hotel Rwanda https://youtu.be/0c4Qr4RS_qY Noriega vs Maduro https://youtu.be/ifPH2W9Xxwo ――――――――― SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: https://cynical-historian-shop.fourthwall.com/ LET'S CONNECT Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/cynicalhistorian.bsky.social