Verfassungsblog (Jan 2023)
A Ukraine Special Tribunal with Legitimacy Problems?
Abstract
The call for a Special Tribunal for the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine (‚UkrTrib‘) is also getting louder in the German political discourse. The proposal goes back to an initiative by the British international lawyer and writer Philippe Sands, who was quickly joined by a number of prominent politicians and international (criminal) lawyers), but this is misleading for several reasons, not least because the IMT was a consequence of the defeat of Nazi Germany and the following regime change, which in the case of Russia is unforeseeable.
