The Rise of the War-Crime Tribunal as a Sign of a Shift in International Justice

"International justice has crossed the historic threshold from academic to real," argued Doug Cassel in a recent Chicago Tribune article. The Chronicle talked with Mr. Cassel, a professor at Northwestern University's School of Law and director of its Center for International Human Rights.

Q. You say this change has happened just in the last decade. How?

A. Before 1993, there had not been an actual international tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo. There had been a great deal of

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