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Reducing genocide to law : definition, meaning, and the ultimate crime /

Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction ass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Akhavan, Payam
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Colección:Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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