Transnational Epistemic Communities

Kerstin von Lingen explores the parallel development of international prohibitions on the use of force and the crime against humanity to the prosaic development of transnational criminal law in the League era concerned with drugs and humans. Her main concern is to show how representatives from small states, scholars and NGO activists came to form a transnational epistemic community that pressed for change to first how state aggression is controlled under international law and then how crimes against civilians are to be dealt with in the latter phases of World War II.