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

By: Series: Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996)Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: xii, 191 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521824415 (hbk.)
  • 0521824419 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.085 AKH 23
LOC classification:
  • KZ7180 .A95 2012
Contents:
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:
1. The power of a word;
2. The taxonomy of crimes;
3. The core elements of international crimes;
4. A hierarchy of international crimes?;
5. Naming the nameless crime;
6. Who owns 'genocide'?;
7. Contesting 'genocide' in jurisprudence;
8. Silence, empathy, and the potentialities of jurisprudence.

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