The trial of the Kaiser William A. Schabas

The trial of the Kaiser William A. Schabas – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192571182, 0192571184

Product details:

• ISBN 10: 0192571184
• ISBN 13: 9780192571182
• Author: William A. Schabas

During the Peace Conference, international lawyers gathered for the first time to debate international criminal justice. They recommended trial of the Kaiser by an international tribunal for war crimes, and the Americans relented, agreeing to a trial for a ‘supreme offence against international morality’. However, the Kaiser had fled to the Netherlands where he obtained asylum, and though the Allies threatened a range of measures if the former Emperor was not surrendered, the Dutch refused and the demands were dropped in March 1920. This book, from renowned legal scholar William A. Schabas, sheds light on perhaps the most important international trial that never was. Schabas draws on numerous primary sources hitherto unexamined in published work, including transcripts which vividly illuminate this period of international law making. As such, he has written a book which constitutes a history of the very beginnings of international criminal justice, a history which has never before been fully told.

Table of contents:

1. The Power of the Beaten Path
2. ‘Hang the Kaiser’
3. Kaiserdämmerung
4. Making the Case in International Law
5. Britain, France, and Italy Agree to Try the Kaiser
6. The Dutch Are Divided
7. Aborted Kidnap
8. The Commission on Responsibilities
9. Prosecuting Crimes against Peace
10. International Law and War Crimes
11. An International Criminal Court
12. The Council of Virgins
13. Finalising the Treaty of Versailles
14. Implementing Article 227
15. Readying the Case for Trial
16. The Kaiser in Limbo
17. Demand for Surrender
18. Was He Guilty?

People also search:

the trial of the sixteen

the trial of the ghost snake

the trial k

the trial kafka

is the trial a true story