Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Nuremberg defense

The defense asserted by a member of the military who has been charged with the crime of failing to obey an order and who claims that the order was illegal, esp. that the order would result in a violation of international law. ( The term is sometimes used more broadly to describe situations in which citizens accused of committing domestic crimes, such as degradation of govern- ment property, claim that their crimes was justified or mandated by international LAW;-