ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

ESIL Interest Group History of International Law

Thursday 27 August 2020

BOOK: Frédéric MÉGRET and Immi TALLGREN, eds., The Dawn of a Discipline International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents (Cambridge, 2020). ISBN 9781108488181, £ 110.00


(Source: CUP)

Cambridge University Press is publishing a new edited collection on key figures in the early history of international criminal justice.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Frédéric MégretMcGill University, Montréal

Frédéric Mégret is a Professor and Dawson Scholar at the Faculty of Law, McGill University. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair on the Law of Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. His research focuses on the theory and history of international criminal justice.
Immi TallgrenUniversity of Helsinki

Immi Tallgren is a Docent (Adjunct Professor) of International Law, University of Helsinki and a Senior Researcher at the Erik Castrén Institute. She has worked as a diplomat, legal advisor in international organisations, and researcher, e.g., at the MPI Luxembourg and LSE. She currently studies the history of international law and gender, international criminal justice, law and cinema.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword Martti Koskenniemi
1. Introduction Frédéric Mégret and Immi Tallgren
2. Hugh Bellot Daniel 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 Wierczyńska and Grzegorz Wierczynski
13. Yokota Kisaburo Matthias Zachmann
14. Jean Graven Damien Scalia
15. Absent or invisible? 'Women' intellectuals and professionals at the dawn of a discipline Immi Tallgren.

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(source: ESCLH Blog)