Abstract
This paper attempts to examine anthropological questions of lawmaking arising from the experince of the International Military Tribunal in Nurnberg without claiming to provide detailed and authoritative information that would be required in complete thesis. The Nurnberg Tribunal is comprehended in this paper as one of the most important constitutive experiences for the development of legal anthropology in the second half of the twentieth century and its main after-war tendencies.
This experience led to immense eort to establish scientic anthropological basis for understanding and judging of legal systems. However, leading gures of legal anthropology (e. g.
Gluckmann, Pospí2il, Moore who herself pariticipated on the tribunal) reacted variously, from enduring legal relativism and separating it from determism to deeping the conception of equality and universal rights. The work of the legal anthropology has culminated in broadly conceived and engaged studies and provided many unsolved questions and inconsistencies.