Abstract
In November 2005, the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law (APCML) hosted a seminar in Australia in honour of the 60th anniversary of the commencement of the Nuremberg Trial. The objective was ‘to assess the contemporary application of the lessons learnt at Nuremberg, and to consider how the legacy of the Trial continues to influence the development of international criminal law and the concepts of justice and reconciliation’ (at xxi). The resulting book, The Legacy of Nuremberg: Civilising Influence or Institutionalised Vengeance?, reflects this origin in two ways. First, the nature of the conference drew participants with a wide range of interests and perspectives, and this diversity of contributions was actively embraced by the editors (at xxi). Some chapters take a historical approach, such as the account of ‘The Atmospherics of the Nuremberg Trial’ (Chapter 1), and a detailed study on the impact of the trials at Nuremberg and thereafter on collective memory in German society (Chapter 2). At the other end of the spectrum, some chapters are purely modern, legal or institutional, such as the analyses of the structures of modern international tribunals (Chapter 9) and the early years of the International Criminal Court (Chapter 10).
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