Prof. Milinda Bannerjee (LMU): „Sovereignty, Natural Law and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial“

ZESS,Raum AP26 Goßlerstr. 10, Göttingen

Abstract: Is the demand for codified international criminal justice antithetical to the demand for agonistic decolonization of global political, military, and economic power? Or can the establishment of global norms of justice be made compatible with, and even grounded upon, anti-colonial and democratic interventions? By analysing Indian involvement in the Tokyo Trial (1946-48), this paper […]