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The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice (2016)
Book Chapter
Weiss, T. G., Plesch, D., & Owen, L. (2016). The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice. In G. Ziccardi Capaldo (Ed.), Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence 2015 (71-109). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780190647759.003.0005

The history of international legal institutions has largely ignored the early activities of the United Nations, specifically of the UN War Crimes Commission (UNWCC). Based on an assessment of its work and with access to new archival evidence, contemp... Read More about The UN War Crimes Commission and International Law: Revisiting World War II Precedents and Practice.

1945’s Forgotten Insight: Multilateralism as Realist Necessity (2015)
Journal Article
Plesch, D., & Weiss, T. G. 1945’s Forgotten Insight: Multilateralism as Realist Necessity. International Studies Perspectives, 17(1), 4-16. https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekv013

The 70th anniversary of the signing and entry into force of the UN Charter provided an occasion to explore the historical underpinnings of contemporary global governance. This article redresses the neglect of the United Nations as a multilateral stru... Read More about 1945’s Forgotten Insight: Multilateralism as Realist Necessity.