Criminal Law

Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation to Fragmentation to Fruition

By Gregory S. Gordon
Oxford University Press June 2017

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ISBN-13
9780190612689
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
June 2017
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.S. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Hate speech is widely considered a precondition for mass atrocity. Since the rise of international criminal tribunals after World War II and the development of international criminal law, defendants have been prosecuted for individual speech acts connected to gross human rights violations under charges that have coalesced into direct and public incitement to commit genocide; persecution as a crime against humanity; and instigation.

The resulting jurisprudence has been fragmented and confused, and existing scholarship has been focused on particular tribunals or situations. The splintered rulings give inadequate notice to would-be hate speakers as to what speech is prohibited, which weakens prevention efforts and leads to inconsistent results. This is especially problematic considering ongoing atrocity speech prosecutions across the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the international law encompassing hate speech. Prof. Gordon provides a broad analysis of the entire jurisprudential output related to speech and gross human rights violations for courts, government officials, and scholars.

The book is organized into three parts. The first part covers the foundation: a brief history of atrocity speech and the modern treatment of hate speech in international human rights treaties and judgments under international criminal tribunals. The second part focuses on fragmentation: detailing the inconsistent application of the charges and previous prosecutions, including certain categories of inflammatory speech and a growing doctrinal rift between the ICTR and ICTY.

The last part covers fruition: recommendations on how the law should be developed going forward, with proposals to fix the problems with individual speech offenses to coalesce into three categories of offense: incitement, speech-abetting, and instigation.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Benjamin B. Ferencz
Preface
Introduction

Part I: Foundation
Chapter 1: Speech and Atrocity: An Historical Sketch
Chapter 2: International Human Rights Law and Domestic Law
Chapter 3: The Birth of Atrocity Speech Law:
Nuremberg and the Foundational Statutes
Chapter 4: The Birth of Atrocity Speech Law:
The Foundational Ad Hoc Tribunal Cases and Offense Elements

PART II: FRAGMENTATION
Chapter 5: Problems regarding the Crime of
Direct and Public Incitement to Commit Genocide
Chapter 6: Problems regarding Persecution, Instigation and Ordering
Chapter 7: The Absence of Criminal Prohibitions
Regarding Hate Speech and War Crimes

PART III: FRUITION
Chapter 8: Fixing Incitement to Genocide
Chapter 9: Fixing Persecution, Instigation and Ordering
Chapter 10: Adopting Incitement to Commit War Crimes
Chapter 11: Restructuring: A Unified Liability Theory for Atrocity Speech Law

Conclusion
Index
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