Oh how the mighty have fallen…

Certain binding legal principles, affirmed unanimously by the UN, emerged from the Nuremberg trials . . . It was made absolutely clear that law must apply equally to everyone. Putting the captive enemies on trial was seen by America’s Chief Prosecutor, Justice Robert Jackson, as “the greatest tribute that power has ever paid to reason.” His successor General Telford Taylor, my chief and later law partner, was more succinct: “Law is not a one-way street.”,1),
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Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin B. Ferencz

Remarks on the International Criminal Court

March 11, 2003

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