Editorial note — Afternoon Session
Reading edition
[C] Mr. Justice Jackson is trying in this connection to invoke Article 4 of the Weimar Constitution of 1919. According to this, the universally recognized rules of international law are regarded as binding components of German Reich law. Owing to the differing legal appreciation of the Kellogg Pact on the part of the Great Powers the interpretation advanced by the Prosecution cannot be looked upon as German Reich law.
Cf. Reich Supreme Court Decisions in Litigation Procedures, Vol. 103, Page 276.
Anschütz: The Constitution of the German Reich (Die Verfassung des Deutschen Reiches); 10th ed., Page 58 et sequentes.