ABSTRACT

Following their victory in the Second World War, the allied powers established International Military Tribunals (IMT) in Nuremberg and Tokyo to try war criminals from the German and Japanese forces respectively. These trials were not limited to military personnel, but encompassed a variety of civilian officials. The creation of these tribunals was without precedent, and the law and procedure of the tribunals represented the first proper expression of international criminal law and procedure. This chapter will examine and appraise the law of the tribunals, as well as the development of international criminal law in the post-Second World War era.