Modern international criminal law typically traces its origins to the twentieth-century Nuremberg and Tokyo trials, excluding the slave trade and abolition. Yet

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The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' histor

The language of international criminal law has considerable traction in global politics, and much of its legitimacy is embedded in apparently 'axiomatic' histor

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