Writings

The sole surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials warns that an executive order from President Trump regarding the International Criminal Court is cause for concern.  ...

To the Editor: Now in my hundredth year, I cannot remain silent. I entered the United States in January 1921 as a poor immigrant boy, and I have felt obliged to repay the ...

Abstract At the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, the waging of aggressive war was indelibly branded as “the supreme international crime,” The United Nations affirmed the ...

Dear Elisabeth, family and friends: Words can not adequately convey our sadness. The Kaul family was like our own family and we feel so helpless to ease the pain as we join in ...

To the Editor: Using poison gas has been a war crime since the 1920s. The Nuremberg trials made plain that crimes are committed by individuals. Only the responsible leaders ...

To the Editor: Re “Former Leader of Guatemala Is Guilty of Genocide Against Mayan Group” (news article, May 11): The landmark conviction by a Guatemalan court of Gen. ...

Re “Congolese Rebel Convicted of Using Child Soldiers” (news article, March 15): The conviction by the International Criminal Court of the warlord Thomas Lubanga for ...

John Yoo's diatribe condemning the International Criminal Court cannot go unchallenged ("Prosecuting the Peace—Can international tribunals curb future atrocities or is the ...

What Really Happened at Kampala It should be recalled that after millions of innocent people had been killed in World War Two, everyone prayed for a more peaceful future. In ...

May it please your Honors, This is a historic moment in the evolution of international criminal law. For the first time a permanent international criminal court will hear the ...

Your superb report “Behind the Hunt for Bin Laden” leaves key questions unanswered. Jubilation over the death of the most hunted mass murderer is understandable, but was ...

May it please your Honors, After listening to that great introduction, you must have expected someone to come in here ten feet tall. Well, I used to be ten feet tall, but the ...

We have come a long way from Nuremberg, and have miles to go before we sleep Hope is the engine that drives human endeavour. After some 20 million people were killed in WW1, ...

When this book was published in 1970, Telford Taylor had concluded that U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam was an American tragedy: “Somehow we failed ourselves to learn ...

Stephen G. Rademaker's April 2 op-ed ["Can judges bring an end to war?"] warned against allowing the International Criminal Court to try leaders for the crime of waging ...

March 3, 2010 Admiral Mike Mullen Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 9999 Joint Staff Pentagon Washington, DC 20318-9999 ATTN: PLEASE SEE THAT THIS LETTER REACHES THE ...

Ben Ferencz has received several inquiries about his view of President Obama’s Nobel Speech last week in Oslo. We share the following response, originally sent privately, in ...

Abstract Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court over the crime of aggression has been deferred for reasons that are not persuasive. Aggression has already been ...