Download This PaperThe Roulette of Suffering
Cardozo Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 9, p. 401, 2001
23 Pages Posted: 4 Oct 2009 Last revised: 15 Nov 2009
Date Written: 2001
Abstract
The overall results of Holocaust-era civil claims have much in common with the lessons demonstrated in the Book of Job. The impression is one of random suffering, with losers being morally indistinguishable from winners. On the other hand, when viewed in international law terms, there is a macro design, if not a strict logic, to the pattern of the cases. Each judicial decision suffers not from illogic but from limited horizons, so that no one decision reflects the overall design of the law.
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