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Less famous than the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal but no less important, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals tried lower-level functionaries and private citizens for their parts in WWII. This text gives a full overview of these trials and it traces the critical role they have played in the development of international criminal law.

Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946. --- War crime trials --- International criminal law --- History --- History. --- Criminal law, International --- ICL (International criminal law) --- Trials (War crimes) --- Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, 1945-1946 --- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946 --- Criminal law --- International law --- Criminal jurisdiction --- International crimes --- Trials (Crimes against humanity) --- Trials (Genocide) --- Trials --- International crimal law --- Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946

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This volume asks a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: Could international law have been otherwise? In other words, what were the past possibilities, if any, for a different law? The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, including in the present volume, by the refusal to accept the present state of affairs and by the hope that recovering possibilities of the past will facilitate a different future. The volume situates the search for contingency theoretically and within many fields of international law, such as human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, and foreign investment and trade. Today there is hardly a serious account that would consider the path of international law to be necessary and that would deny the possibility of a different law altogether. At the same time, however, behind every possibility of the past stands a reason – or reasons – why the law developed as it did. Those who embark in search of contingency soon encounter tensions when they want to recover past possibilities without downplaying patterns of determination and domination. Nevertheless, while warring critical sensibilities may point in different directions, only a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did makes it possible to argue about how they could plausibly have turned out differently.

International law --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- International law. --- Contingency (Philosophy)