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The Nuremberg trials : last tragedy of the Holocaust / Ellis Washington.

Title
The Nuremberg trials : last tragedy of the Holocaust / Ellis Washington.
Author
Washington, Ellis.
Publication
Lanham : University Press of America, c2008.

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Description
x, 233 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Discusses the paradoxical use of positive law during the advent of the Nuremberg trials over sixty years ago, asserting that natural law should have been utilized instead.
Subject
  • 1946-1949
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949
  • Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 > Influence
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-218) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Historical context of the Nuremberg Trials -- The shameful legacy of the Nuremberg Trials in contemporary jurisprudence -- Exposition -- Judge Charles Wyzanski's views on the Nuremberg Trials -- Refutation of Judge Charles Wyzanski -- Justice Robert Jackson's view on the Nuremberg Trials -- Refutation of Justice Robert Jackson -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: The Nuremberg Trial philosophy in modern times.
ISBN
  • 9780761841081
  • 0761841083
LCCN
^^2008926470
OCLC
229021465
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library