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Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?

Philippe Sands: Is international justice working?

The Interview vor 4 Jahren

Is international justice an ideal which the world has signally failed to live up to?

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When the first Nuremberg trial of Nazi war criminals came to an
end, the ground-breaking international tribunal handed down 12
death sentences. Seventy-five years on, is the world any better
at delivering justice for the worst of crimes? In the years that
followed, there were hopes that an evolving mechanism of
international justice would deter and punish further heinous acts
of mass murder and genocide. Does it remain an impossible ideal?
Stephen Sackur speaks to international lawyer and author Philippe
Sands.

(Photo: Philippe Sands in the Hardtalk studio)