| Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48 Contributor(s): Von Lingen |
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ISBN: 9004359974 ISBN-13: 9789004359970 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $165.30 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - History | Modern - 20th Century - History | Military - World War Ii |
| Series: History of Warfare |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" (1.45 lbs) 330 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: While the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg has been at the centre of scholarly attention, the Tokyo Tribunal has for decades been largely neglected. This is surprising insofar as this tribunal was a well-organized Allied endeavour and prefigured the international courts and tribunals of our day. Eleven national teams were sent to Tokyo between 1946 and 1948 to bring about justice in the aftermath of the Pacific War. This volume offers an innovative approach to the Tokyo Tribunal as an arena of transcultural engagement. It contextualizes legal agents as products of transnational forces, constituted through dialogues about legal concepts and processes of faction-making. The endeavour was challenged by different national policies, divergent legal traditions, and varying cultural perceptions of the task ahead. Contributors are Milinda Banerjee, Anja Bihler, Neil Boister, David M. Crowe, Kerstin von Lingen, Narrelle Morris, Hitoshi Nagai, Valentyna Polunina, Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, Lisette Schouten, James Burnham Sedgwick, Yuki Takatori and Urs Matthias Zachmann. |