A New Architecture of Justice
Dan Kiley’s Design for the Nuremberg Trials
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12627232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Somos (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Heidelberg Germany, corresponding author), Morgan Gostwyck-Lewis (independent scholar) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-139 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1388-199X • E-ISSN: 1571-8050 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15718050-12340104 |
| OpenAlex | W2950254019 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Courtroom 600 in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice is one of the most iconic sites in the history of international criminal law. Yet the extensive literature on Courtroom 600 neglects the original 1945 drawings by the architect Dan Kiley, now in the archives of the Harvard Design School. This article revises our understanding of Courtroom 600 in light of these drawings. Among other findings it argues that Kiley, rather than Jackson or the Office of Strategic Services, was the main source of design decisions; that the secondary literature overemphasises film at the expense of architecture; and that the design of both Courtroom 600 and the entire reconstruction of the Palace of Justice offer valuable insights into this key moment in the history of international law
Art · Computer security · Criminal justice · Criminal law · Economic Justice · Key (lock · Political science · Sociology · Visual arts · Computer Science · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Architecture
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |