Overview

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.

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Author:   Frédéric Mégret (McGill University, Montréal) ,  Immi Tallgren (University of Helsinki)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
ISBN:  

9781108738507

ISBN 10:   1108738508
Pages:   441
Publication Date:   14 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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 Wierczyńska 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.

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'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

Author Information

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 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.

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