Nuremberg forty years later : the struggle against injustice in our time : International Human Rights Conference, November 1987 papers and proceedings : and retrospective 1993 /

Nuremberg forty years later : the struggle against injustice in our time : International Human Rights Conference, November 1987 papers and proceedings : and retrospective 1993 / edited by Irwin Cotler. - Montreal [Que. : Published for the Faculty of Law of McGill University and InterAmicus by McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1995. - 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages)

Held Nov. 3-4, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents -- Foreword -- PART I: NUREMBERG FORTY YEARS LATER: THE STRUGGLE AGAINST INJUSTICE IN OUR TIME -- Remarks -- Opening Plenary: The Raoul Wallenberg Forum on Human Rights -- Appreciation -- Panel One: Nuremberg and Its Legacy -- The Nuremberg Principles -- Domesticating the Nuremberg Principles: The Canadian War Crimes Legislation -- Panel Two: Nuremberg Forty Years Later: Bringing War Criminals to Justice in Our Time -- Papers -- Response to the DeschÃnes Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals: An Emergent Mythology and Its Antidote The Nazi War Criminal as ImmigrantPanel Three: The United Nations and Human Rights Forty Years Later -- Panel Four: Words that Maim: Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Expression -- Closing Plenary: Against Injustice -- Presentation: The Robert S. Litvack Memorial Award in Human Rights -- PART II: THE NUREMBERG LEGACY -- FIVE YEARS LATER -- The Raoul Wallenberg Forum on Human Rights -- Human Rights, Anti-Semitism, and the Wallenberg Legacy -- War Crimes Justice -- Five Years Later -- Nuremberg Legacy: The United States Five Years Later War Crimes: An Australian UpdateWar Crimes Legislation in the United Kingdom: The Current Position, October 1992 -- Canada: Five Years Later -- Freedom of Expression and Freedom from Expression -- Five Years Later -- Hate Speech: United States Update -- Principles and Perspectives on Hate Speech, Freedom of Expression, and Non-discrimination: The Canadian Experience as a Case Study in Striking a Balance -- Against Injustice -- Perfectibility and Corruptibility: Towards a Post-Apartheid, Non-Racial, Democratic South Africa -- Conference Participants



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