GENOCIDE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW

The 1948 Genocide Convention has become a vital legal tool in the international campaign against impunity. Its provisions, including its enigmatic definition of the crime and its pledge both to punish and prevent the 'crime of crimes', have now been interpreted in important judgments by the International Court of Justice, the ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and various do mestic courts. The second edition of this definitive work focuses on the judicial interpretation of the Convention, relying on debat es in th...[Read more]