LAW 828 International Criminal Tribunals and Military Commissions
This course will look at the history and legal significance of International Criminal Tribunals and military commissions from the mid-19th century until the present. It will focus not only on the Nuremberg and Tokyo IMT's, the ICTR, the ICTY, the ICC, and the military commission trials at Guantanamo, but also on the evolution of contemporary international criminal and humanitarian law during this period. It will also look more deeply at the procedural and legal underpinnings of such tribunals and commissions going back to the 19th century, particularly the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross as the driving force in the development of international humanitarian law.