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Developments in the understanding and treatment of genocide through the twentieth century have involved a combination of politics, public opinion, social trends, and economic development, and led to the substantive law of genocide and the assumption of international jurisdiction. This book analyzes incidences of genocide and mass atrocities, focusing on the political factors involved in modern counter-genocide efforts. Drawing on incidences of genocide and mass atrocity such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Armenian genocide, Mark Kielsgard adopts a conceptual model that reveals the political factors which impact the international law of genocide, such as barriers and catalysts to transitional justice and the politics of genocide denial.As a work which provides a focused picture of those influences and their significance to genocide studies, this book will be of great use and interest to students and researchers in international criminal law, conflict studies, and conflict resolution.
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More than one million people died in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 under the regime of the Khmer Rouge. Thirty years later, a Cambodian court supported by the UN tries to hold legally accountable those most reponsible for the crime committed. This study presents some of the major legal issues relevant to possible genocide charges against the Khmer Rouge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. In a first part, the basic structure and elements of the crime of genocide under International Criminal Law are looked at, with a focus on the particular intent requirement and the issue of groups as targets of genocidal intent. The second part of the study examines the case of the Khmer Rouge mass atrocities based on the legal framework elaborated, discussing questions involved in the legal characterization of Khmer Rouge policies. These questions include the auto-genocide debate, the distinction between discriminatory mass killings and genocidal intent as well as the legal relevance of motives for group targeting.
Genocide (International law) --- Genocide --- Political atrocities --- Crimes against humanity
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The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (“Genocide Convention”) has a special standing in international law, as well as in international politics. For 60 years the crime of genocide has been recognised as the most horrendous crime in international law, famously designated the ‘crime of crimes’. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of its adoption the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that ‘genocide is the ultimate form of discrimination’. In the same context the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court described the Genocide Convention as a ‘visionary and founding text for the Court’. The Convention has influenced the subsequent development of many different areas of international law. For example, the 1951 Advisory Opinion on the Genocide Convention enabled the International Court of Justice to shape the modern regime of reservations to treaties. More recently the prohibition against genocide has become a crucial pillar of international criminal law, with genocide being one of the core crimes falling under the jurisdiction of the UN ad hoc tribunals, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the permanent International Criminal Court since the 1990s. In this work the provisions of the Convention are analysed article-by-article, including abundant practice and jurisprudence. Distinct sections on cross-cutting issues of general importance complement the analysis
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This perceptive book analyzes the scope of the duty to prevent genocide of China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US in light of the due diligence standard under conventional, customary, and peremptory international law. It expounds the positive obligations of these five states to act both within and without the Security Council context to prevent or suppress an imminent or ongoing genocide.
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A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has never been the subject of a full-length scholarly work. This book examines the background of the Holocaust and genocide through the prism of the law; the criminal and civil prosecution of the Nazis and their collaborators for Holocaust-era crimes; and contemporary attempts to criminally prosecute perpetrators for the crime of genocide. It provides the history of the Holocaust as a legal event, and sets out how genocide has become known as the "crime of crimes" under both international law and in popular discourse. It goes on to discuss specific post-Holocaust legal topics, and examines the Holocaust as a catalyst for post-Holocaust international justice. Together, this collection of subjects establishes a new legal discipline, which the author Michael Bazyler labels "Post-Holocaust Law."
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Invité à donner une conférence en Ukraine dans la ville de Lviv, autrefois Lemberg, Philippe Sands, avocat international réputé, découvre une série de coïncidences historiques qui le conduiront de Lemberg à Nuremberg, des secrets de sa famille à l'histoire universelle. C'est à Lemberg que Leon Buchholz, son grand-père, passe son enfance avant de fuir, échappant ainsi à l'Holocauste qui décima sa famille ; c'est là que Hersch Lauterpacht et Raphael Lemkin, deux juristes juifs qui jouèrent un rôle déterminant lors du procès de Nuremberg et auxquels nous devons les concepts de " crime contre l'humanité " et de " génocide ", étudient le droit dans l'entre-deux guerres. C'est là enfin que Hans Frank, haut dignitaire nazi, annonce, en 1942, alors qu'il est Gouverneur général de Pologne, la mise en place de la " Solution finale " qui condamna à la mort des millions de Juifs. Parmi eux, les familles Lauterpacht, Lemkin et Buchholz. Philippe Sands transcende les genres dans cet extraordinaire témoignage où s'entrecroisent enquête palpitante et méditation profonde sur le pouvoir de la mémoire.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Génocide (Droit international) --- Crimes contre l'humanité --- Procès de Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Allemagne, 1945-1946 --- Histoire --- Shoah --- Nuremberg, Procès de (1945-1946) --- Genocide --- Genocide (International law) --- Crimes against humanity --- Crimes against humanity (International law) --- World War, 1939-1945
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La 4e de couverture indique : "Le génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda est un fait juridique indéniable. Il hante les relations entre ce pays et le monde occidental en général et la France en particulier. Le cas français est à cet effet un terrain intellectuel et scientifique de premier ordre dès lors qu'il a participé au drame rwandais bien avant l'année tragique de 1994. Les dossiers individuels traités à ce jour « Au nom du Peuple français » par la justice française sont discutés, jugés, contestés. Cet ouvrage collectif entend mettre en évidence les dossiers judiciaires relatifs au génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda à partir du cas de la France et des décisions et arrêts des juridictions internationales, européennes, constitutionnelles, administratives et judiciaires."
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Raphaël Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the word "genocide" in the winter of 1942 and led a movement in the United Nations to outlaw the crime, setting his sights on reimagining human rights institutions and humanitarian law after World War II. After the UN adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1948, Lemkin slipped into obscurity, and within a few short years many of the same governments that had agreed to outlaw genocide and draft a Universal Declaration of Human Rights tried to undermine these principles.This intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential theorists and human rights figures sheds new light on the origins of the concept and word "genocide," contextualizing Lemkin's intellectual development in interwar Poland and exploring the evolving connection between his philosophical writings, juridical works, and politics over the following decades. The book presents Lemkin's childhood experience of anti-Jewish violence in imperial Russia; his youthful arguments to expand the laws of war to protect people from their own governments; his early scholarship on Soviet criminal law and nationalities violence; his work in the 1930s to advance a rights-based approach to international law; his efforts in the 1940s to outlaw genocide; and his forays in the 1950s into a social-scientific and historical study of genocide, which he left unfinished.Revealing what the word "genocide" meant to people in the wake of World War II—as the USSR and Western powers sought to undermine the Genocide Convention at the UN, while delegations from small states and former colonies became the strongest supporters of Lemkin's law—Raphaël Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide examines how the meaning of genocide changed over the decades and highlights the relevance of Lemkin's thought to our own time.
Genocide. --- Genocide (International law) --- International law and human rights. --- Génocide --- Droit international et droits de l'homme --- Droit international --- Lemkin, Raphael, --- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide --- Genocide --- International law and human rights --- Lemkin, Raphael, - 1900-1959 --- Lemkin, Raphaël
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Theme1: Droit - Droit international et étranger - Droit étranger Theme2: Résumé: Quelle est la conception de la justice pénale véhiculée dans cette "mondialisation" du droit pénal, modèle sur lequel se cristallisent les espoirs, aussi nombreux que différents ? Devant les meurtres collectifs, matérialisation de l'abolition du principe de la limite, quelles sont les réponses de la justice pénale internationale ? Cet ouvrage propose une nouvelle lecture des crimes contre l'humanité et des génocides. L'analyse criminologique des pratiques meurtrières révèle non seulement la manipulation des tabous du meurtre, de l'inceste et du cannibalisme mais également un agir génocidaire qui remet en question les fondements de la normativité des communautés humaines sur des valeurs éthiques. Face aux dits et non-dits des meurtres collectifs, la justice pénale internationale reproduit une rationalité imperméable à l'abolition du principe même de limites et de perpétuation des sociétés. Cet essai est une invitation à penser d'autres espaces de justice pouvant considérer d'une part les visions endogènes d'une justice territorialisée et d'autre part l'effondrement d'une perception de l'Humanité dévoilés par les meurtres collectifs et politiques. Maître de conférences à l'Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, enseignant également au Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Juridique de Paris (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), professeure invitée à l'école de criminologie de l'Université de Lubumbashi en République Démocratique du Congo depuis 2006, Sara Liwerant est actuellement conseillère du Ministre de la Justice et des Droits Humains de la République Démocratique du Congo. Pénaliste, criminologue et anthropologue du droit et de la justice, elle a été rédactrice en chef de la Revue Droit et Cultures. Ses nombreuses publications portent sur les meurtres collectifs, la justice pénale internationale et le milieu carcéral. En effet, l'auteure a travaillé dans les prisons françaises, au Pérou sur la justice transitionnelle et à Brazzaville avec des acteurs de la guerre civile.
Human rights --- Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Genocide (International law) --- Genocide --- Crimes against humanity --- Mass murder --- Génocide --- Crimes contre l'humanité --- Meurtre multiple --- Sociological aspects --- Droit international --- Aspect sociologique --- EPUB-ALPHA-C EPUB-LIV-FT LIVDROIT STRADA-B --- Trials (Genocide) --- E-books --- Crimes contre l'humanité --- Criminologie --- Droit humanitaire --- Génocide
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Judge Mettraux's four-volume compendium, 'International Crimes: Law and Practice,' will provide the most detailed and authoritative account to-date of the law of international crimes. It is a scholarly tour de force providing a unique blend of academic rigour and an insight into the practice of international criminal law. The compendium is un-rivalled in its breadth and depth, covering almost a century of legal practice, dozens of jurisdictions (national and international), thousands of decisions and judgments and hundreds of cases. This second volume discusses in detail crimes against humanity.
Genocide. --- Genocide (International law) --- Genocide --- Crimes against humanity. --- Génocide. --- Génocide --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit international pénal. --- Procédure pénale (droit international) --- Law and legislation. --- Droit. --- International law. --- Génocide. --- Génocide --- Crimes contre l'humanité. --- Droit international pénal. --- Procédure pénale (droit international) --- Crimes against humanity (International law)
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