War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956, 1st ed. 2016 Justice in Time of Turmoil World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence Series
Kerstin von Lingen is Researcher and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany in the ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ Cluster of Excellence. Since 2013, she has led an independent research group, ‘Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1945-1954’. She is the 2016 laureate of the International Chair for the History of the Second World War, awarded by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Explores the contradictory intentions embodied in bringing perpetrators to justice
Offers a fresh perspective on justice in Asia
Draws attention to the Asian dimension in the history in international humanitarian law
Date de parution : 07-2018
Ouvrage de 290 p.
14.8x21 cm
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Mots-clés :
War ciriminals; World War Two; International law; Second World War; Colonial powers