Buffalo Human Rights Law Review Volume 8 Article 3 9-1-2002 Genocide: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann and the Quest for Global Justice Matthew Lippman University of Illinois at Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/bhrlr Part of the International Law Commons, and the Military, War, and Peace Commons Recommended Citation Matthew Lippman, Genocide: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann and the Quest for Global Justice, 8 Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 45 (2002). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/bhrlr/vol8/iss1/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. It has been accepted for inclusion in Buffalo Human Rights Law Review by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ University at Buffalo School of Law. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. GENOCIDE: THE TRIAL OF ADOLF EICHMANN AND THE QUEST FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE Matthew Lippman* INTRODUCTION This essay revisits the Israeli prosecution of Adolf Eichmann, a central architect of Nazi Germany's Final Solution of the Jewish question. The Eichmann trial stands as a seminal step in the development of interna- tional human rights and humanitarian law and presents the profound juris- prudential issue as to whether legal standards and procedures may be compromised in an effort to achieve a desired and deserved criminal conviction.' Professor Lon L. Fuller composed the hypothetical, The Problem Of The Grudge Informer, to highlight the central issues raised in Eichmann and in other post-World War H war crimes prosecutions.