For many of us, the Nuremberg trials stand as a shining example of the superiority of ius, what is just and right regardless of what a billion people may say, even if they have all the political power on their side, to lex, that is, the written law, the law on the books. That is because the judges decided not to permit the Nazi leaders and their tools …
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