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The provisions of the 1948 Genocide Convention are now being interpreted in important judgments by the International Court of Justice, the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and increasingly in domestic courts. In this definitive work William A. Schabas gives detailed attention t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Schabas, William, 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide > (1948 December 9)
Convention pour la prévention et la répression du crime de génocide > (1948)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948 December 9)
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide > (1948)
Genocide.
Génocide.
LAW > International.
Genocide
Crimes contre l'humanité.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Origins of the legal prohibition of genocide
  • Drafting of the convention and subsequent normative developments
  • Grounds protected by the convention
  • The physical element or actus reus of genocide
  • The mental element of mens rea of genocide
  • 'Other acts' of genocide
  • Defences to genocide
  • Prosecution of genocide by international and domestic tribunals
  • State responsibility and the role of the international court of justice
  • Prevention of genocide
  • Treaty law questions and the convention.

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