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10 - Aron Trainin

The Legal Mind Behind A Soviet International Criminal Law Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2020

Frédéric Mégret
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Immi Tallgren
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki
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Professor Aron Trainin (1883–1957), an outstanding Russian and Soviet criminal law scholar, has played a leading role in academic support of the Soviet Union’s team in Nuremberg and contributed to the drafting of the IMT Charter and Judgment. His writings to a large extent shaped the Soviet approach to international criminal law. The chapter addresses Trainin’s biography and follows the major steps in his academic career from its beginning in tsarist Russia to its the peak, when Trainin held the positions of associate member of Soviet Academy of Sciences and professor at Moscow University. The chapter traces the sources of Trainin’s interest in international criminal law and addresses the scholar’s contribution to the ICL. The author focuses specifically on two areas, where the impact of Trainin’s was significant – a legal justification for crimes against peace, and the concept of complicity.

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The Dawn of a Discipline
International Criminal Justice and Its Early Exponents
, pp. 260 - 279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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