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Antonio Cassese (1937–2011) was an Italian international law scholar who served as the first president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) from 1993 to 1997, overseeing its foundational years as the first international war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo...
Philippe Sands is a British-French international lawyer, professor of law at University College London, and practicing barrister. He has appeared as counsel before multiple international tribunals, including the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, in cases concerning...
The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia is a hybrid international criminal tribunal established in 2006 by both the Cambodian government and the United Nations. Operating under Cambodian law with international participation, the court was tasked with prosecuting senior leaders of the Kh...
The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT or UNMICT) is a United Nations body established by UN Security Council Resolution 1966 in December 2010 to assume the remaining functions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International C...
The Debt is a 2007 Israeli espionage thriller directed by Assaf Bernstein. The narrative centers on three retired Mossad agents who are haunted by a secret mission they undertook in the 1960s to capture a Nazi war criminal known as the Surgeon of Birkenau. The film alternates between the original mi...
The Collini Case is a 2019 German legal drama film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner, adapted from Ferdinand von Schirach's novel. It follows a young defense attorney, played by Elyas M'Barek, who takes on a seemingly straightforward murder case involving an elderly defendant, portrayed by Franco Nero...
The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone is an international judicial body established in 2013 to manage the ongoing legal obligations of the original Special Court for Sierra Leone. Its primary functions include the supervision of enforced sentences, witness protection, and the management of arc...
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is a state-level judicial institution located in the capital city of Sarajevo. It was formally established in 2002 to handle cases of national significance. The court's jurisdiction specifically includes organized crime, corruption, terrorism, and war crimes. It o...
Tokyo Trial is a 2016 historical miniseries co-produced by NHK and Netflix, dramatizing the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. The series focuses on the judges from eleven Allied nations who presided over the trial of Japanese wartime leaders after World War II. It explores the legal,...
The Debt is a 2010 espionage thriller directed by John Madden and adapted from the 2007 Israeli film of the same name. Helen Mirren, Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Ciarán Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, and Jesper Christensen appear in a story spanning two periods in the lives of Mossad agents. The plot c...
The Statement is Norman Jewison's 2003 thriller about the pursuit of a former Vichy collaborator, inspired by French war criminal Paul Touvier.
