Research Catalog

Title

The UN Genocide Convention : a commentary / edited by Paola Gaeta.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gaeta, Paola

Description

xxxiv, 580 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

The 1948 Genocide Convention is one of the most important instruments in international law. This title provides an analysis of each article of the Convention. It also examines the Convention's legacy and future, drawing on its preparatory works and the development of international case law on genocide.

Series Statement

Oxford commentaries on international law

Alternative Title

United Nations Genocide Convention

Subject

• United Nations
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
• Genocide

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The road to the genocide convention and beyond / Yuval Shany -- The obligation to prevent and to punish genocide / Orna Ben Naftali -- The implementation of the genocide convention at the national level / Ben Saul -- The definition and the elements of the crime of genocide / Florian Jessberger -- The notion of 'Protected Groups' in the genocide convention and its application / Fanny Martin -- Is genocidal policy a requirement for the crime of genocide? / Antonio Cassese -- Perpetrators and co-perpetrators of genocide / Alexander Zahar -- Complicity to commit genocide / Elies van Sliedregt -- Attempt to commit genocide / Jens David Ohlin -- Incitement and conspiracy to commit genocide / Jens David Ohlin -- National criminal jurisdiction over genocide / Vanessa Thalmann -- International criminal jurisdiction over genocide / Salvatore Zappalà.
• The extradition of genocidaires / Robert Roth -- Immunities and genocide / Paola Gaeta -- The defence of alleged génocidaires / Howard Morrison -- State responsibility for genocide under the genocide convention / Anja Seibert-Fohr -- State responsibility for conspiracy, incitement and attempt to commit genocide / Jens David Ohlin -- State responsibility for complicity in genocide / Paolo Palchetti -- The role of the United Nations in preventing and suppressing genocide / Giorgio Gaja -- The compromissory clause of the convention / Robert Kolb -- The scope ratione personae of the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ / Robert Kolb and Sandra Krähenmann -- The scope ratione materiae of the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ / Robert Kolb -- Territorial application of the genocide convention and state succession / Marko Milanovic -- Operative provisions of the genocide convention / Katherine Del Mar -- Prosecuting denials of past alleged genocides / Christian Tomuschat -- Taking stock of the genocide convention and looking ahead / Antonio Cassese.

ISBN

• 9780199570218 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0199570213 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010288150

OCLC

• 318409860
• SCSB-10256167

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library