Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Martti Koskenniemi -- Unprecedents / Gerry Simpson -- Founding moments and founding fathers : shaping publics through the sentimentalization of history narratives / Kamari Maxine Clarke -- From the sentimental story of the state to the Verbrecherstaat, or, The rise of the atrocity paradigm / Lawrence Douglas -- International criminal justice history writing as anachronism : the past that did not lead to the present / Frédéric Mégret -- Redeeming rape : Berlin 1945 and the making of modern international criminal law / Heidi Matthews -- "Voglio una donna!' : on rewriting the history of international criminal justice with the help of women who perpetrated international crimes / Immi Tallgren -- Writing more inclusive histories of international criminal law : lessons from the slave trade and slavery / Emily Haslam -- The 'Africa Blue Books' at Versailles : the First World War, narrative, and unthinkable histories of international criminal law / Christopher Gevers -- Crimes against humanity : racialized subjects and deracialized histories / Vasuki Nesiah -- Nazi atrocities, international criminal law, and Soviet war crimes trials : the Soviet Union and the global moment of Post-Second World War justice / Franziska Exeler -- Theodor Meron and the humanization of international law / Aleski Peltonen -- Histories of the Jewish 'collaborator' : exile, not guilt / Mark Drumbl.