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The Law of Command Responsibility. By Guenael Mettraux. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiii, 307. $120, £60.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Detlev F. Vagts
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 103 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 800 - 803
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Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of International Law

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1 He has written elsewhere on international criminal tribunals. See, in particular, his International Crimes and the Ad Hoc Tribunals (2005), reviewed at 100 AJIL 993 (2006) by Dermot Groome.

2 One editorial quibble: there is a tendency to misspell German words such as “Gesellschaft” (p. 67 n.127), “Vorgesetztenverantwortlichkeit” (p. 81 n.184), “Geburtstag” (p. 86 n.210), “Zeitschrift” (p. 294), and “Bemerkungen” (id).

3 For an ICTY judge’s defense of top–level prosecutions, see Theodor, Meron, Reflections on the Prosecution of War Crimes by International Tribunals, 100 AJIL 551, 563–64 (2006)Google Scholar.

4 Hitler, Ian Kershaw , The Germans, And The Final Solution 142 (2008)Google Scholar.

5 In re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1 (1946).

6 Some students of the case have taken quite a different view of the facts, however, noting that a terrible camp for prisoners of war was maintained only a few feet from Yamashita’s headquarters. See Richards, Peter Judson , Extraordinary Justice; Military Tribunals In Historical and International Context 126–27 (2007)Google Scholar.

7 United States v. Von Leeb, 11 Trials of War Criminals Before The Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, at 462 (1950).

8 United States v. List, id. at 757.