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The Crime of Genocide: Then and Now

The Crime of Genocide: Then and Now

Author: Pavel Sturma; Milan Lipovsky
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
ISBN: 9789004519312
Published In: October 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Disclaimer:
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In this original and thought-provoking collection, the Editors provide a multilayered study of the "crime of crimes". Adopted in 1948, and based on Raphael Lemkin's idea, the definition of genocide belongs to the cornerstones of international criminal law and justice.

This volume focuses on, among other topics, the narrow scope of protected groups, wider domestic adaptations of the definition, denial of genocide, and current legal proceedings related to the crime in front of the ICJ and ICC. In this way its authors, based primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, analyse and discuss the readiness of the definition to meet the challenges of criminal justice in our changing world. The volume thus offers much fresh thinking on the international legal and legal policy complexities of genocide seventy years after the Genocide Convention's entry into force.

Foreword - Claus Kress

Notes on Contributors

Introduction - Pavel Sturma and Milan Lipovsky

Part 1. Theoretical Issues and the Concept of Genocide

1. State Responsibility and Individual Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Genocide

Pavel Sturma

2. Atrocity Labelling From Crimes against Humanity to Genocide Studies

Markus P. Beham

Part 2. Forms of Responsibility for the Crime of Genocide

3. Time for Yet Another Judicial Creativity - Does a Purpose-Based Approach Hinder Successful Prosecutions of Genocide Cases?

Michala Chadimova

4. Attempted Genocide in International Criminal Law