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Australia's War Crimes Trials 1945-51

by Georgina Fitzpatrick , Timothy L. H. McCormack , Narrelle Morris
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004292048
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill Nijhoff
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  • Pages: 912
  • Original Price: USD 469.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1407 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): International

This unique volume provides a detailed analysis of Australia's 300 war crimes trials of principally Japanese accused conducted in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Part I contains contextual essays explaining why Australia established military courts to conduct these trials and thematic essays considering various legal issues in, and historical perspectives on, the trials. Part II offers a comprehensive collection of eight location essays, one each for the physical locations where the trials were held. In Part III post-trial issues are reviewed, such as the operation of compounds for war criminals; the repatriation of convicted Japanese war criminals to serve the remainder of their sentences; and reflections of some of those convicted on their experience of the trials. In the final essay, a contemporary reflection on the fairness of the trials is provided, not on the basis of a twenty-first century critique of contemporary minimum standards of fair trial expected in the prosecution of war crimes, but by reviewing approaches taken in the trials themselves as well as from reactions to the trials by those associated with them. The essays are supported by a large collection of unique historical photographs, maps and statistical materials. There has been no systematic and comprehensive analysis of these trials so far, which has meant that they are virtually precluded from consideration as judicial precedent. This volume fills that gap, and offers scholars and practitioners an important and groundbreaking resource.

Georgina Fitzpatrick was the Research Fellow (Historian) based initially at the Australian War Memorial and then at the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, University of Melbourne (2009-12) where she prepared contextual essays for the Australia's Post-World War II Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series (forthcoming). She received her doctorate from the Australian National University in 2009 and her publications include 'War Crimes Trials, "Victor's Justice" and Australian military justice in the aftermath of the Second World War' in Gerry Simpson and Kevin Heller eds, The Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials, 2013.

Tim McCormack is a Professor of Law at the Melbourne Law School and an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tasmania Law School. He is also the Special Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He served as an international observer for Phase 2 of the Turkel Commission of Enquiry into Israel's Processes for the Investigation of Alleged War Crimes (Jerusalem, 2011-13); as expert Law of War Adviser to Major Michael Mori for the Defence of David Hicks before the US Military Commission (Guantanamo Bay, 2003-07); and as amicus curiae on International Law Issues for the Trial of Slobodan Milosevic (The Hague, 2002-06). He was the Foundation Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (2001-10) and the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor of International Humanitarian Law (1996-2010) both at the Melbourne Law School. He is currently a Fulbright Senior Scholar, the Charles H Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. Tim leads the project on Australia's Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series

Narrelle Morris is a Lecturer in the Curtin Law School and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law, Melbourne Law School. She is the principal legal researcher on the Melbourne-based Australian Research Council funded project Australia's Post-World War II War Crimes Trials of the Japanese: A Systematic and Comprehensive Law Reports Series. She also holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (2014-17) to conduct research into the Australian war crimes investigator and jurist Sir William Flood Webb. She is the author of Japan-bashing: Anti-Japanism since the 1980s (2010) and various chapters and articles on war crimes.


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