ISBN:
0521824419
,
9780521824415
,
9781107480056
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 191 S.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Akhavan, Payam Reducing genocide to law
Dissertation note:
Teilw. zugl.: Cambridge, Harvard Law School, Diss., 2001
Keywords:
Genocide
;
Genocide (International law)
;
Genocide
;
Genocide (International law)
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Völkermord
Description / Table of Contents:
The power of a word -- The taxonomy of crimes -- The core elements of international crimes -- A hierarchy of international crimes? -- Naming the nameless crime -- Who owns "genocide"? -- Contesting "genocide" in jurisprudence -- Silence, empathy, and the potentialities of jurisprudence.
Note:
Includes bibliographical index and references
