John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law, has posted The Nuremberg Trials: A Summary Introduction:
This lecture was delivered on May 4, 2016, at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, at “The Nuremberg Symposium: The Nuremberg Laws & the Nuremberg Trials,” sponsored by the International March of the Living, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and Jagiellonian University. The lecture explains that following World War II, there were thirteen “Nuremberg trials” of Nazi war criminals and introduces those proceedings by discussing:
(1) The predicate human behavior: making war;
(2) International law's progress in addressing that behavior before World War II;
(3) Nazism as human and national regression;
(4) World War II;
(5) Legal analysis and war condemnation during World War II;
(6) The Allied nations' military defeat of Nazi Germany;
(7) The Allies' international Nuremberg trial of 1945-1946;
(8) The twelve subsequent American trials in Nuremberg;
(9) The legal legacy of the Nuremberg trials; and
(10) The human rights legacy, including the Holocaust knowledge legacy, of the Nuremberg trials.
This lecture appears in a symposium issue that also includes lectures and remarks by Wojciech Nowak, Richard Heideman, Shmuel Rosenman, Irwin Cotler, Alan Dershowitz, Samantha Power, Justin Trudeau, Robert Badinter, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Ayelet Shaked, Zdzislaw Mach, Michael Berenbaum, Edward Mosberg, John Dyson, Dorit Beinish, Sam Rugege, Rosalie Silberman Abella, Marie Thérèse Mukamulisa, Malcolm Hoenlein, Ron Prosor, Elizabeth Buettner, Brooke Goldstein, Stuart Eizenstat, Phyllis Greenberg Heideman, David Machlis, Gregory Peterson, and Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias.
--Dan Ernst