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  1. Monitoring universal jurisdiction’s rocky road. The trial of Bai L. in Germany Journal Article
    Aboueldahab, Susann; Freixo, Inês; González Espinosa, Rodolfo (2025)
    In: Journal of International Criminal Justice, 23(2), pp. 353-372
    Jurisdiction International criminal law Crimes against humanity Trials: particular Criminal procedure Criminal law: complicity Transitional justice
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  2. A judge's participation in a criminal or terrorist organization. From Nuremberg to contemporary German criminal law Contribution
    Geneuss, Julia (2025)
    In: Couso Salas, Jaime; Cárdenas Aravena, Claudia; Jeßberger, Florian; Kuhli, Milan (Eds.), Transitional justice and the criminal responsibility of judges, Routledge, London, pp. 256-266
    Transitional justice Judges Offenses against public safety Terrorism Criminal law Offenses committed in public office
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  3. Invalidation of judicial decisions in cases of farcical prosecutions. A German perspective Contribution
    Abraham, Markus (2025)
    In: Couso Salas, Jaime; Cárdenas Aravena, Claudia; Jeßberger, Florian; Kuhli, Milan (Eds.), Transitional justice and the criminal responsibility of judges, Routledge, London, pp. 119-130
    Transitional justice Judgments Criminal law Prosecuting and public attorney National Socialism Inter-German relations German reunification Sedition Offenses against the administration of justice Offenses committed in public office Wrongful conviction Criminal policy
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  4. Prosecuting state criminality after German unification. Judging the judges Contribution
    Werle, Gerhard; Vormbaum, Moritz (2025)
    In: Couso Salas, Jaime; Cárdenas Aravena, Claudia; Jeßberger, Florian; Kuhli, Milan (Eds.), Transitional justice and the criminal responsibility of judges, Routledge, London, pp. 27-47
    Transitional justice German reunification Inter-German relations Offenses committed in public office Offenses against the administration of justice Criminal law Criminal procedure Judges Prosecuting and public attorney Trials: particular Political crimes Human rights
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  5. Malfeasance in office as a crime in the context of dictatorships. The example of judicial perversion of justice in the East German Waldheim Trials Contribution
    Cornelius, Kai (2025)
    In: Couso Salas, Jaime; Cárdenas Aravena, Claudia; Jeßberger, Florian; Kuhli, Milan (Eds.), Transitional justice and the criminal responsibility of judges, Routledge, London, pp. 18-26
    Transitional justice Offenses committed in public office Offenses against the administration of justice Trials: particular Inter-German relations German reunification National Socialism Dictatorship War crimes Judges
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  6. Settling accounts for Nazi-era judicial injustice (NS-Justizunrecht) before Allied and (West-)German Courts. Charting new territories and failed opportunities Contribution
    Jeßberger, Florian; Kuhli, Milan (2025)
    In: Couso Salas, Jaime; Cárdenas Aravena, Claudia; Jeßberger, Florian; Kuhli, Milan (Eds.), Transitional justice and the criminal responsibility of judges, Routledge, London, pp. 3-17
    Transitional justice National Socialism Judges Offenses committed in public office Offenses against the administration of justice Military tribunals (international) Criminal procedure Inter-German relations
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  7. The law of Damals, the Verbrecherstaat and postwar German justice Contribution
    Douglas, Lawrence (2022)
    In: Burghardt, Boris; Jeßberger, Florian; Vormbaum, Moritz (Eds.), Strafrecht und Systemunrecht. Festschrift für Gerhard Werle zum 70. Geburtstag, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, pp. 569-579
    National Socialism Offenses committed in public office Military tribunals (international) Crimes against humanity Genocide Crimes against peace Antisemitism Holocaust / Shoah Trials: particular Retroactive laws Transitional justice Homicide Criminal law: complicity
  8. Civilian crime during the British and American occupation of Western Germany, 1945–1946: Analyses of military government court records Journal Article
    Kehoe, Thomas J.; Kehoe, E. James (2022)
    In: European Journal of Criminology, 19(1), pp. 3-28
    Military government Military occupation Military tribunals (international) Criminology Transitional justice Police / Policing Empirical research
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  9. Cunning passages: Historiography's ways in and out of the Nuremberg courtroom Journal Article
    Priemel, Kim Christian (2020)
    In: Central European History, 53(4), pp. 785-810
    Military tribunals (international) History Trials: particular Transitional justice War
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  10. Democracy, Nazi trials, and transitional justice in Germany, 1945-1950 Book
    Pendas, Devin O. (2020)
    ISBN 9781139021074, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
    National Socialism Dictatorship Criminal law Offenses committed in public office Succession of states Inter-German relations Trials: particular Military tribunals (international) International criminal law Crimes against humanity Amnesty and pardon Military occupation Transitional justice Holocaust / Shoah Antisemitism
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  11. Historical development of leniency programs in Germany Contribution
    Heinrich, Bernd (2020)
    In: Eisele, Jörg (Eds.), Past and future. Transitional justice versus traditional criminal justice? : Ways of dealing with past conflicts and past autocracies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden, (Beiträge zum Strafrecht - Contributions to Criminal Law, ), pp. 111-130
    Transitional justice Evidence: criminal law Legal history Withdrawal of prosecution and plea bargaining Criminal law: theory Prosecuting and public attorney Sentences Statutes
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  12. Traditional legal instruments: Germany and the prosecution of national socialist crimes Contribution
    Rommel, Jens (2020)
    In: Eisele, Jörg (Eds.), Past and future. Transitional justice versus traditional criminal justice? : Ways of dealing with past conflicts and past autocracies, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Baden-Baden, (Beiträge zum Strafrecht - Contributions to Criminal Law, ), pp. 23-36
    Transitional justice National Socialism Criminal procedure
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  13. Law on a slanted globe Journal Article
    Wilke, Christiane (2015)
    In: Social & Legal Studies, 24(4), pp. 555-576
    Transitional justice Criminal law: complicity Offenses committed in public office Reception of law International Criminal Court (ICC)
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  14. Transitional criminal justice after German unification and its international impact Thesis
    Frielingsdorf, Jolinde (2010)

    German reunification Administration of justice Transitional justice Trials: particular International criminal law Punishment, Purposes of
  15. The normalization of Nazi crime in postwar West German trials / Die Normalisierung von NS-Kriegsverbrechen in den Nachkriegs-Prozessen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Contribution
    Wittmann, Rebecca (2006)
    In: Reginbogin, Herbert; Safferling, Christoph (Eds.), The Nuremberg Trials: international criminal law since 1945 = Die Nürnberger Prozesse: Völkerstrafrecht seit 1945. 60th Anniversary International Conference / Internationale Konferenz zum 60. Jahrestag, De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 209-215
    National Socialism Trials Homicide Criminal law: complicity Limitation of actions Antisemitism Genocide Transitional justice Holocaust / Shoah
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    Open Access