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Kerstin von Lingen, Lecturer at the University of Heidelberg, has recently published a very readable online essay on the term of "Crimes against Humanity" and its historical development in the course of the twentieth century. You will find Kerstin's essay in Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History published by the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam @:http://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/site/40209177/default.aspxKerstin is the Coordinator of the Junior Research Group: Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1946-1954.Central research focus of this project is to analyse the interaction of concepts of legality and justice between Asia and Europe during the War Crimes Trials program in various countries in East Asia between 1945 and 1954, taking into account the legal proceedings, the role of the United Nations War Crimes Commission, as well as the political implications emanating from Decolonization and Cold War considerations. The group engages in subjects as different as United Nations War Crimes Commission’s policy, Dutch trials in Indonesia, French trials in Indochina, Chinese trials and Soviet trials in Far East (Khabarovsk), and the position of India at Tokyo.For more detailed information on this important research group as well as the individual research project visit its webpage @:http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/research/a-governance-administration/a16-transcultural-justice.html