He added that in international penal law one could be declared innocent even after an indictment.

It focuses mainly on international law in general and a wide variety of neighbouring topics like international economic law, international penal law and international relations.

But the process was professional in a way seldom achieved in military courts, and the records and judgments in these trials provided a much-needed foundation for a corpus of judge-made international penal law.

It builds upon the Treaty on International Penal Law, adopted by the First South American Congress on Private International Law in Montevideo on 23 January 1889, incorporating doctrines already accepted due to situations which had occurred since between 1889 and 1939.