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Changing the paradigm of international criminal law : considering the work of the United Nations War Crimes Commission of 1943-1948

Dan Plesch and Shanti Sattler

• International community law review, Vol. 15, no. 2, 2013, p. 203-223

English

More than 2,000 international criminal trials were conducted at the end of World War II in addition to those held by the International Military Tribunals (IMTs) at Nuremburg and Tokyo. Fifteen national tribunals conducted these trials in conjunction with an international war crimes commission established by these same states in October 1943 under the name, The United Nations Commission (UNWCC). The extensive work of the UNWCC and these tribunals serves as a source of customary international criminal law that relates directly to the current work of the International Criminal Court and the ad hoc tribunals in operation since the 1990s.

• International community law review
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