Cosmopolitan Norms

The Eichmann trial, like the Nuremberg trials, highlights the complexities of emerging cosmopolitan justice norms.
Karl Jaspers expressed concerns that the trial's significance lies in establishing historical facts and reminding humanity of them.
Hannah Arendt argued that Israel had a plausible basis for assuming jurisdiction because Eichmann was an outlaw who had escaped arrest after being indicted in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity.
Arendt believed genocide is the ultimate crime against humanity because it targets the physical extermination of a people.
Crimes against humanity require considering the human being as having a legal status protected by international law, taking precedence over existing legal orders.
Arendt distinguished crimes against humanity from