nuremberg-tokyo-jeanne-sulzer
Verification-first methodology for the post-WWII tribunals: the IMT at Nuremberg, the twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals, and the IMTFE at Tokyo. Citations are verified against the official records (Blue/Green Series, Pritchard-Zaide) and the digital archives (Avalon, Harvard NTP, UVA IMTFE). Guards the four classic traps (IMT vs NMT; Nuremberg vs Tokyo; Charter article numbers; majority judgment vs separate opinions, e.g. the Pal dissent). Research aid, not legal advice. Part of the open-source \"Skills for International Justice\" library — methodology: github.com/jeannesulzer/international-
npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill nuremberg-tokyo-tribunals-jeanne-sulzer --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Nuremberg + Tokyo — the post-WWII international military tribunals This skill governs every output that touches the three post-WWII military tribunals: the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (IMT), the twelve subsequent United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT), and the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo (IMTFE). The discipline is simple and the reason for it is concrete: these tribunals are the doctrinal matrix of modern international criminal law. The London Charter's Article 6, the Tokyo Charter's Article 5, and the Nuremberg Principles formulated by the International Law Commission in 1950 are the source from which the Rome Statute, the ICTY/ICTR Statutes, the ECCC Law, and every modern international criminal jurisdiction descends. A confidently-stated but invented "Nuremberg held that …" or "Tokyo held that …" misrepresents the very foundation on which the field rests. ## The discipline in one paragraph For any case-specific citation — the IMT Judgment, an individual defendant's conviction, a subsequent NMT case, an IMTFE finding, a passage of Robert Jackson's opening, a separate opinion at Tokyo, an exhibit — verify before citing. "Ve
- The discipline in one paragraph
- Verification is gradient, not binary
- Standard workflow
- Foundational texts (cite from project knowledge when present)
- Nuremberg side
- Tokyo side
- Shared / cross-cutting
- The institutional architecture (get this right)
- IMT — International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
- NMT — Twelve subsequent US Nuremberg Military Tribunals
- IMTFE — International Military Tribunal for the Far East
- Source hierarchy
- Citation format
- Audit mode
What does the nuremberg-tokyo-jeanne-sulzer skill do?
Verification-first methodology for the post-WWII tribunals: the IMT at Nuremberg, the twelve Nuremberg Military Tribunals, and the IMTFE at Tokyo. Citations are verified against the official records (Blue/Green Series, Pritchard-Zaide) and the digital archives (Avalon, Harvard NTP, UVA IMTFE). Guards the four classic traps (IMT vs NMT; Nuremberg vs Tokyo; Charter article numbers; majority judgment vs separate opinions, e.g. the Pal dissent). Research aid, not legal advice. Part of the open-source \"Skills for International Justice\" library — methodology: github.com/jeannesulzer/international-
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills --skill nuremberg-tokyo-tribunals-jeanne-sulzer --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From lawve-ai/awesome-legal-skills, a repository with 618 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.