TY - BOOK ID - 127010013 TI - Holocaust, genocide, and the law : a quest for justice in a post-holocaust world PY - 2016 SN - 9780195395693 0195395697 PB - New York: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Genocide (International law) KW - International criminal law KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - World War, 1939-1945 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127010013 AB - 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." ER -