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

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

Frédéric Mégret (Edited by), Immi Tallgren (Edited by)

9781108488181, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 September 2020

520 pages, 15 b/w illus.
16 x 23.5 x 3 cm, 0.78 kg

'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 [also] … this book helps to understand that policy changes may be more often than not the result of influential key figures who need to be identified.' Dr. Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, Journal of Consumer Policy

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.

Foreword Martti Koskenniemi
1. Introduction Frédéric Mégret and Immi Tallgren
2. Hugh Bellot Daniel Marc Segesser
3. Vespasian V. Pella Andrei Mamolea
4. Emil Rappaport Patrycja Grzebyk
5. Quintiliano Saldaña Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral
6. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres Frédéric Mégret
7. Hans Kelsen Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira
8. Bert Röling Jan Klabbers
9. Radhabinod Pal Rohini Sen and Rashmi Raman
10. Aron Trainin Gleb Bogush
11. Raphael Lemkin Vesselin Popovski
12. Stefan Glaser Karolina Wierczy?ska and Grzegorz Wierczynski
13. Yokota Kisaburo Matthias Zachmann
14. Jean Graven Damien Scalia and Romane Laguel
15. Absent or invisible? 'Women' intellectuals and professionals at the dawn of a discipline Immi Tallgren.

Subject Areas: Criminal law & procedure [LNF], International humanitarian law [LBBS], Public international law [LBB], Legal history [LAZ], Armed conflict [JPWS]