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Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation to Fragmentation to Fruition

Atrocity Speech Law: Foundation to Fragmentation to Fruition

Author: Gregory S. Gordon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780190612689
Published In: June 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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