The Genocide Convention: An International Law AnalysisThe Genocide Convention explores the question of whether the law and genocide law in particular can prevent mass atrocities. The volume explains how genocide came to be accepted as a legal norm and analyzes the intent required for this categorization. The work also discusses individual suits against states for genocide and, finally, explores the utility of genocide as a legal concept. |
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... particular, can prevent mass atrocities. The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis is structured around these issues. After three introductory parts, which explain how genocide came to be accepted as a legal norm, the next ...
... particular, can prevent mass atrocities. The Genocide Convention: An International Law Analysis is structured around these issues. After three introductory parts, which explain how genocide came to be accepted as a legal norm, the next ...
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... particular group, when the actor selects them because of their membership in the group. Another crime had been defined as extermination, involving the killing of persons of a particular group. The law on the conduct of warfare already ...
... particular group, when the actor selects them because of their membership in the group. Another crime had been defined as extermination, involving the killing of persons of a particular group. The law on the conduct of warfare already ...
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... Particular Intent to Destroy in Whole or in Part the Group as Such,' Leiden Journal of International Law 14, p. 399, p.400. Other ways of defining genocide were considered during the drafting, The Genocide Convention 10.
... Particular Intent to Destroy in Whole or in Part the Group as Such,' Leiden Journal of International Law 14, p. 399, p.400. Other ways of defining genocide were considered during the drafting, The Genocide Convention 10.
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... particular number of years for each.17 16 Prosecutor v. Rutaganda, Case No. ICTR 96-3-T, Judgment, 6 December 1999, para. 115. 17 Prosecutor v. Krstic, Case No. IT-98-33-T, Judgment, 2 August 2001, para. 727. The appeals chamber of the ...
... particular number of years for each.17 16 Prosecutor v. Rutaganda, Case No. ICTR 96-3-T, Judgment, 6 December 1999, para. 115. 17 Prosecutor v. Krstic, Case No. IT-98-33-T, Judgment, 2 August 2001, para. 727. The appeals chamber of the ...
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... particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or of any of the other acts enumerated in article III. Ratifying states would make genocide a local crime.1 Many of the ratifying states have done so, but by no ...
... particular, to provide effective penalties for persons guilty of genocide or of any of the other acts enumerated in article III. Ratifying states would make genocide a local crime.1 Many of the ratifying states have done so, but by no ...
Contents
Calling to Account | 21 |
GenocideS Legal Environment | 61 |
Genocidal Intent | 88 |
The Victims of Genocide | 137 |
The Scale of Genocide | 162 |
Techniques of Genocide | 189 |
Genocide by a State | 215 |
Why Genocide? | 265 |
Appendix | 285 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 299 |
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