A Conceptual History of War Crimes Trials

在全球范围内促进正义本身就是一种目的，也是避免大规模社会混乱的一种手段，这种混乱威胁着全球联邦（因此也威胁着澳大利亚）。必须对这一体系进行批判性的历史分析。该项目将准确地阐明澳大利亚对战争罪法的长期承诺的利害关系，并在国际法律秩序历史上的变革时刻使澳大利亚成为国际刑事司法的全球中心。具体目标是写一部国际法遇到邪恶问题的思想史，以及通过刑事审判恢复和救赎的可能性。

Promoting justice around the globe is an end in itself as well as a means of avoiding the sort of mass social disruption that threatens the global commonwealth (and, therefore, Australia). It is imperative that this system be exposed to a critical historical analysis. The project will clarify precisely what is at stake in Australia's long commitment to war crimes law and establish Australia as a global centre for international criminal justice at a transformative moment in the history of the international legal order. The specific aim is to write an intellectual history of international law's encounter with the problem of evil and the possibility of rehabilitation and redemption through criminal trial.