Did the Nuremberg trial violate any international law?

Possibly. How? By trying some of its defendants for acts committed by members of the Allies and not trying those Allied members as well. read more

A Dangerous Precedent virtually every constitutional government has some prohibition of ex post facto legislation, often in the very words of Magna Carta, or Article I of the United States Constitution, or Article 8 of the French Declaration of Rights. read more

The International Military Tribunal in particular, and the twelve subsequent trials at Nuremberg, laid the basic foundations for the later development of international criminal law. 5.2.1 Tokyo During the same year as Nuremberg, the Tokyo Trials were set up by the United States in order to prosecute and bring to justice several Japanese officials involved in war crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. read more

The Nuremburg trials occurred in 1945-46, but the European Convention on Human Rights wasn’t adopted until 1950 and entered into force only in 1953. So the Nuremberg trials couldn’t violate a Convention that did not exist. read more