Collections

The Influence of the Nuremberg Trial on International Criminal Law

The Nuremberg trials established that all of humanity would be guarded by an international legal shield and that even a Head of State would be held criminally responsible and punished for aggression and Crimes Against Humanity. The right of humanitarian intervention to put a stop to Crimes Against Humanity – even by a sovereign against his own citizens – gradually emerged from the Nuremberg principles affirmed by the United Nations.

Robert H. Jackson’s Oral Arguments Before the New York Court of Appeals

John Q. Barrett's article "Robert H. Jackson's Oral Arguments Before the New York Court of Appeals," appears in the Spring/Summer 2005 newsletter of the Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York on pages 3 to 5.