Curbing the Manipulation of Universal Jurisdiction

The Global law Forum / Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs ^ | Diane Morrison and Justus Reid Weiner

[debka]

The principle of Universal Jurisdiction has been, and continues to be, an important tool in the legal practitioner’s tool box and an essential means of achieving justice for international crimes. Unfortunately, the principle has also become a political device employed for far more cynical means and far less noble purposes. In the early 1960’s, Israel was one of the first states to invoke the principle of universal jurisdiction in its groundbreaking trial against Adolf Eichmann, the “architect of the Holocaust”.

[Moltke]

That’s a rather long read. Care to summarize? Or what’s your point in posting this? I see you just joined today. Welcome, I guess.

[SunkenCiv]

In the early 1960's, Israel was one of the first states to invoke the principle of universal jurisdiction in its groundbreaking trial against Adolf Eichmann, the "architect of the Holocaust".

In the post-WWII years, British intelligence hunted down and killed a number of former Nazis who were involved in various wartime projects not deemed worthy of war crimes prosecution.

[Copernicus]

In the post-WWII years, British intelligence hunted down and killed a number of former Nazis who were involved in various wartime projects not deemed worthy of war crimes prosecution.

Yes, I believe it was cynically referred to as "rendering the individual into Her Majesty's permanent custody".

It is also the foundation for James Bond's "License to Kill"

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