Julian Burnside: Sovereign Immunity and Invading Nations

Julian Burnside: Sovereign Immunity and Invading Nations
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - Melbourne Writers Festival
Gerry Simpson and Julian Burnside debate the tensions inherent in war crime trials from Nuremberg to the trial of Saddam Hussein.Those tensions are found between collective guilt and individual responsibility; and the between the instinct that war, at worst is an error, and the conviction that war is a crime - Melbourne Writers Festival