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Judith Shklar on the Philosophy of International Criminal Law

In: International Criminal Law Review
Author:
Samuel Moyn Professor of Law and History, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

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Online Publication Date:
31 Jul 2014
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This article revives Judith N. Shklar’s Legalism (Harvard University Press, 1964) with an eye to its relevance to international criminal law today. It examines her general jurisprudential outlook, and critique of various prominent mid-century positions, before turning to her account of the Nuremberg Trials. Showing that her defense of those trials may fail, the article concludes by suggesting that the book’s failure may make it more relevant to the contemporary enterprise of international criminal law rather than less.

Title:
Judith Shklar on the Philosophy of International Criminal Law
Article Type:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/15718123-01405013
Language:
English
Pages:
717–737
Keywords:
Judith N. Shklar; Nuremberg trials; international criminal law; naturalism; positivism
In:
International Criminal Law Review
In:
Volume 14: Issue 4-5
Publisher:
Brill | Nijhoff
E-ISSN:
1571-8123
Print ISSN:
1567-536X
Subjects:
International Criminal Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

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