No Peace Without Justice, No Justice Without Law: A Review Essay

Mark R. Shulman*

JONATHAN HAFETZ, PUNISHING ATROCITIES THROUGH A FAIR TRIAL: INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW FROM NUREMBERG TO THE AGE OF GLOBAL TERRORISM (CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018)

According to the last living Nuremberg Prosecutor, the extraordinary Benjamin B. Ferencz, "There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance." 1 In reviewing an important new book, this essay examines the work of the International Military Tribunal convened in 1945 and at courts since to deliver justice that would indeed ensure peace. In part because of Mr. Ferencz's tireless advocacy, the decades since Nuremberg have witnessed significant progress in the development of courts capable of delivering the kind of justice upon which peace can fairly rest.

*Member of the Board of Directors, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law.