The Genocide Convention sixty years after its adoption / edited by Christoph Safferling and Eckart Conze.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Safferling, Christoph Johannes Maria, 1971-

Conze, Eckart

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9).

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Genocide (International law).

Trials (Genocide).

Physical Description:

xx, 316 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

The Hague : Asser, [2010]

Summary:

In 1948 the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations. Thereby genocide was defined as an international crime.

Sixty years later, the prosecution of the crime of genocide raises a multitude of questions. Although genocide was not a crime during the Nuremberg Trial, its historic roots rest with the persecution of Jews and other minorities by Nazi-Germany. Because of this historical focus, the legal definition of genocide is difficult to apply to other conflicts.

Bringing together scholars and practitioners, this volume of essays examines the Genocide Convention from historical, legal and social science perspectives. Contemporary witnesses also report on their experiences during the Nuremberg, the Eichmann and the Auschwitz trials. Their contributions offer a range of insights on the practical problems and academic discussion surrounding the prosecution of genocide. And the combination of lawyers, historians and social scientists provides a broad assessment of the topic, from the origins of the Genocide Convention to its future implementation.

This book is an important contribution to the worldwide debate on and prosecution of genocide, making it valuable reading for academics and practitioners in international criminal law, historians, political scientists, students and all others interested in international law, the history of international law and international relations. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Genocide Convention sixty years after its adoption / Christoph Saferling and Eckart Conze

Genocide in international law and international relations prior to 1948 / William A. Schabas

Raphael Lemkin and "genocide" at Nuremberg, 1945-46 / John Q. Barrett

The United Nations and the origins of the Genocide Convention 1946-48 / Jost Dülffer

Strategies for "genocide trials" after World War II : how the Allied powers deal with the phenomenon of genocide in Occupied Germany / Wolfgang Form

The Holocaust and the Genocide Convention of 1948 / Herbert Reginbogin

Genocide prevention and the dynamics of conflict / Ulrich Wagner and Thorsten Bonacker

War crimes, genocide trials and Vergangenheitspolitik : the German case / Annette Weinke

Genocide and the Genocide Convention in Israel / Moche Zimmermann

The policy element in genocide : when is it required by international rules? / Antonio Cassese

The two notions of genocide : distinguishing macro phenomena and individual misconduct / Stefan Kirsch

Different forms of participation in genocide / Henning Radtke

The special intent requirement in the crime of genocide / Christoph Safferling

The challenge of genocide trials : "the Cambodian situation" / Jürgen Assmann

The International Criminal Court and the crime of genocide / Hans-Peter Kaul

The crime of genocide applied in practice : selected aspects of the jurisprudence of the ad hoc Tribunals' Appeals Chambers / Matthias Schuster

International genocide trials : three case studies / Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca and Margaret Patten Knowlan

The ICJ judgment in the Bosnian genocide case and beyond : a need to reconceptualise? / Anja Seibert-Fohr

Genocide and the International Court of Justice / Bruno Simma

The trial of Adolf Eichmann and other genocide trials / Gabriel Bach

The Auschwitz trial at the Landgericht Frankfurt and its importance for the prohibition of genocide / Heinz Düx

The Nuremberg trial 1945-1946 / Whitney R. Harris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

906704315X

9789067043151

OCLC:

535491402

Publisher Number:

99948368882