From nuremberg to rome: Restoring the defence of superior orders

International and Comparative Law Quarterly

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 386-394

  Mccoubrey, Hilaire ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84937334927     PISSN: 00205893     EISSN: 14716895     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/iclq/50.2.386     Document Type: Article

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1. (1816) 4 M&S, 41.
2. (1990) 17 S.C.R., 561.
3. S.C.R.
4. For discussion of the general case jurisprudence see L. C. Green, Superior Orders in National and International Law (A. W. Sijthoff, 1976, especially at pp.122 ff.).
5. (1922) 16 American Journal of International Law, p.704).
6. (1922) 16 American Journal of International Law, at pp.707–708.
7. See The Times (London), 20 April 1999.
8. (1922) 16 American Journal of International Law, 708.
9. American Journal of International Law, at p.722.
10. For discussion of the British Tribunals see A. V. P. Rogers “War Crimes Trials under the Royal Warrant: British Practice 1945–1949” (1990) 39 I.C.L.Q. pp.780–800.
11. For an illuminating discussion see T. Crump, The Death of an Emperor (Oxford University Press, 1991).
12. Cited by Martin Gilbert, Second World War (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1989; Phoenix, 1995), at p.160.
13. War Crimes Trials, Vol. I, (William Hocky & Co., 1948).
14. J. Blackett, “Superior Orders: The Military Dilemma” Feb. 1994, Royal United Services Institution Journal, p.12 at p.17.