Law against genocide : cosmopolitan trials / David Hirsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hirsh, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide.

Trials (Genocide).

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, Or. : GlassHouse Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing a sociologist's insight to legal institutions and narratives, this book is an innovative and timely sociological contribution to current concerns regarding critical cosmopolitanism, human rights and crimes against humanity.

Contents:

Front Cover; LawAgainst Genocide; CopyrightPage; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Abbreviated cases; Introduction; Chapter One: Cosmopolitan Law; A cosmopolitan law to limit the rights of states; National sovereignty; The re-emergence of cosmopolitanism; Cosmopolitan law: an emergent property of international law; Cosmopolitan law as a project not a future; Chapter Two: Individual Responsibility and Cosmopolitan Law; Modernity and the Holocaust: Bauman's critique of rational choice; Rationality and the Holocaust reconsidered; Police Battalion 101 and individual responsibility

Adolf Eichmann and individual responsibilityConclusion on individual responsibility; Chapter Three: Crimes Against Humanity: The actualisation of a Universal; The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; Crimes against humanity; The Genocide Convention and the problems of defining genocide; Chapter Four: Peace, Security and Justice in theFormer Yugoslavia; Peace before justice: Srebrenica and Dayton; Justice before peace: Kosovo; Omarska: an intimate concentration camp; The UN response: the ICTY; Chapter Five: The Trials of Blaskic and Tadic at the ICTY

The trial of General Tihomir BlaskicThe trial of Dusko Tadic; Chapter Six: The Sawoniuk Trial: ACosmopolitan Trial Under National Law; The ordinary and extraordinary Andrei Sawoniuk; Ben-Zion Blustein: Holocaust memoir and legal testimony; The evidence of the local witnesses; Sawoniuk under cross-examination; Chapter Seven: Irving v Lipstadt and the Legal Construction of Authoritative Cosmopolitan Narrative; Irving v Lipstadt; The legal construction of cosmopolitan social memory; Chapter Eight: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.

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ISBN:

1-280-16706-8

9786610167067

1-135-31152-8

1-84314-507-3

9781843145073

OCLC:

63128183