Nuremberg Laws

To begin with, human rights has failed in terms of international law. Human rights are defined as “the existence of rights that all human beings possess that even one’s own government cannot infringe on or deny and then can be protected by external elements, as through the United Nations.” There are 30 provisions in the Declaration of Human Rights that was passed on December 10th, 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. However, not many of these are seen as universal. Most of these…

protesters and activist to break the law for the sake of their cause. When laws begin to be broken it's no longer justifiable to say that it's still Civil disobedience. In a democracy,…

jurisprudential schools of thought: legal positivism and natural law, particularly in the context of Nazi laws. The multitudinous nature of jurisprudential inquiry concerning the relationship between law and morality allows for numerous conflicting interpretations and opinions. Therefore, it is important to limit the scope of this essay. This will be done by considering Prof. Lon Fuller’s claim that there is an intrinsic connection between law and morality and Prof. H.L.A Hart’s rejection…

The legal construction of state sovereignty becomes in the doctrines of international law a universal principle regulating the relations between independent…

In the history of international law, few legal proceedings have been as criticized and discussed as the Nuremberg trials. Held between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946, they saw the action of the Allied forces against 23 of the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich, indicted for crimes such as conspiracy, aggression, and crimes against peace and humanity. Considered a model for the following International Military Tribunal trials, they actually were morally and…

Is it correct to argue that human rights have existed since the earliest times within human history? The belief that all human beings are entitled to certain humans rights is fairly new across the world even though it is argued that they have existed in many different traditions before this (www1.umn.edu). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been described as a succession of international breakthroughs and revolutionary declarations (www.krisis.eu). It proclaims that all human beings…

1. Define and explain the significance of grundnorm. Essentially a grundnorm is an ordinance that states follow to make contracts between each other (J.G. Rumsey, International Law Lecture 2)(Murphy, 11). The significance of this term is that it helps to establish what states can put down on their treaties, so that they have something to refer to and go off of when making such a contract. 2. Define and explain the significance of pacta sunt servanda. The definition of pact sunt servanda is…

While the inception of modern public international law heralded a revolutionary shift in law governing relations, the accountability of States, individuals and actors who engage in unlawful international conduct has often been alibied by a horizontal system of law which is unable to enforce consent to cooperate with treaties and charters. Unlike domestic law, which embodies an enforceable judiciary, legislature and executive, International law has no agency or organisation capable of mandatorily…

The book; Eichmann in Jerusalem: A report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt presents the various irregularities of authority and procedures to render a legal judgment in the trail of Eichmann. Moreover, in this paper, I will be discussing the question of whether justice was attainable in the case Adolf Eichmann, also, I will further examine and outline the strengths and limitations of achieving justice in such cases. As well as outline the meaning of the phrase “Banality of evil”. Lastly…

which they are undergoing, which has the potential to cause them to make false admissions or to breach their own rights, such as the right to silence or to prevent self-incrimination. This potentially leads to a power imbalance between them and any law enforcement officer that may be involved (Boersig 2012, p.255). Thus, the legislation states that a statement can only be admissible in the presence of a responsible adult (Boersig, 2012, p.255). Within the criminal justice system, the principles…