Thus, he describes Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre’s trial of the Vietnam War as an attempt
to appropriate the Nuremberg form.37 Moreover, Cover acknowledges the
impact of legal enunciations, whether state-based or not, on legal
consciousness. He therefore defends the Nuremberg trials based on “the
capacity of the event to project a new legal meaning into the future.”38 Such
legal meaning was then available for others to use and build upon in
subsequent iterations.