The defence of 'obedience to superior orders' in international law

1. The Deliberations of the Commissions of the United Nations, 1942-19452. The Charter of the International Military Tribunal, 1945; PART IV: THE CASES; Chapter 1: Trials before International Tribunals; 1. Historical Note; 2. The Nuremberg Trial; 3. The Tokyo Trial; Chapter 2: Trials before National Courts; 1. Historical Note; 2. The 'Subsequent Proceedings' at Nuremberg; 3. Other Trials of War Criminals; Summing-Up of the Cases; PART V: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION SINCE 1946; Chapter 1: Doubts and Vacillations; 1. The Genocide Convention, 1948; 2. The Red Cross Conventions, 1949.

The first comprehensive monograph on the defence of superior orders after the second world war, which remains pre-eminent in the field, the republication of this highly-sophisticated work once again makes this book available to scholars and students in the field. First published in 1965, Yoram Dinstein set the standard for future analysis of this issue, providing a ground-breaking interpretation that integrated domestic and international law to provide a subtle and nuanced challengeto the countervailing perceptions of the time, shaped as they were by the Nuremburg and Eichmann trials. The rece