Autorentext

Gregory S. Gordon is Professor of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law and the author of Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation, Fragmentation, Fruition.

Klappentext

"An expansive biography of Benjamin Ferencz, a Romanian-born Jewish American lawyer of humble beginnings who prosecuted the Einsatzgruppen-a group of Nazi SS detachments responsible for the murder of approximately 1.5 million civilians in Eastern Europe during World War II-at the American military tribunal in Nuremberg in 1947. This biography also details the remainder of Ferencz's career, during which he worked on reparations and toward the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court"--