The New Histories of International Criminal Law

Immi Tallgren is Senior Lecturer of Public International Law at the University of Helsinki; Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights; and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is also associated member at the Centre de droit international, Université Libre de Bruxelles. She currently directs collaborative research on history of international law as well as on international law and media.Thomas Skouteris is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Ibrahim Shihata Memorial LLM Program in International and Comparative Law at the American University in Cairo. He has also taught at Leiden University, the Melbourne Law Masters Program, and the Central European University. Skouteris has served as Founding Secretary General of the European Society of International Law, Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law, and Senior Fellow at the European Law Research Center of Harvard University.

• Foreword Martti Koskenniemi: List of Contributors 1: Immi Tallgren and Thomas Skouteris: Editors Introduction 2: Gerry Simpson: Unprecedents 3: Founding Moments and Founding Fathers: Shaping Publics through the Sentimentalization of History Narratives Kamari Maxine Clarke: 4: From the Sentimental Story of the State to the Verbrecherstaat, Or, the Rise of the Atrocity Paradigm Lawrence Douglas: 5: International Criminal Justice History Writing as Anachronism: The Past that Did Not Lead to the Present Frédéric Mégret: 6: Redeeming Rape: Berlin 1945 and the Making of Modern International Criminal Law Heidi Matthews: 7: Voglio una donna!: On Rewriting the History of International Criminal Justice with the Help of Women Who Perpetrated International Crimes Immi Tallgren: 8: Writing More Inclusive Histories of International Criminal Law: Lessons from the Slave Trade and Slavery Emily Haslam: 9: The Africa Blue Books at Versailles: The First World War, Narrative, and Unthinkable Histories of International Criminal Law Christopher Gevers: 10: Crimes Against Humanity: Racialized Subjects and Deracialized Histories Vasuki Nesiah: 11: Nazi Atrocities, International Criminal Law, and Soviet War Crimes Trials: The Soviet Union and the Global Moment of Post-Second World War Justice Franziska Exeler: 12: Aleksi Peltonen: Theodor Meron and the Humanization of International Law 13: Mark Drumbl: Histories of the Jewish Collaborator: Exile, Not Guilt Index

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