GENOCIDE & CRIMES AGAINST HUMA

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-84946-334-8
Verlag: HART PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 423 g

Reihe: Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law

This book explores the ambiguities of the French law of genocide by exposing the inexplicable dichotomy between a progressive theory and an overly conservative practice. Based on the observation that the crime of genocide has remained absent from French courtrooms to the benefit of crimes against humanity, this research dissects the reasons for this absence, reviewing and analysing the potential legal obstacles to the judicial use of the law of genocide before contemplating the definitional impact of this judicial reluctance and the consequent confusion between the two crimes. Whilst it uses the French law of genocide and related case law on crimes against humanity as its focal points, the book further adopts a more general standpoint, suggesting that the French misunderstandings of the crime of genocide might ultimately be symptomatic of a more widespread misconception of the crime of genocide as a crime perpetrated against 'a group'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fournet, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Strafrecht, Internationales Verfahrensrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Westeuropa, Südeuropa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part 1 Crimes Against Humanity: From Nuremberg to Lyon. And Back Again 1 Trying Klaus Barbie: Setting a Precedent? 1.1 Crimes Against Humanity and the Victimisation of the Individual 1.2 Systematic Crimes 'in the Name of a State Practising a Policy of Ideological Supremacy' 1.3 Perceiving the Knowledge Requirement 2 Trying Paul Touvier and Maurice Papon: Twisting the Precedent 3 A Problematic Legacy 3.1 Equalising Victims, Confusing Crimes 3.2 Making of Nuremberg a Law of Circumstances Part 2 Punishing Genocide: Too Much To Ask? 4 The Direct Applicability of the Genocide Convention under French Law 5 The Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to the Crime of Genocide 6 The Applicability of Retroactive Criminal Norms 7 The Contemporary Understanding of the Law of Genocide by the French Judiciary: Dualism in Disguise? 8 Concluding Observations Part 3 Why Genocide? 9 Responding to the Incorrect Ill-Qualification of Vichy France in the Touvier and Papon cases 9.1 The Laws of Vichy France: 'An Impeccable Style for an Infinite Horror' 9.2 The Criminal Acts of Vichy France: The Question of Genocidal Intent 9.3 The Criminality of Vichy France: Complicity in Genocide 10 Responding to the Equalisation of Victims in the Barbie Case 11 Genocide: A Crime Against the Family? 11.1 The Legal Destruction of the Family 11.2 The Physical Destruction of the Family 12 Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Fournet, Caroline
Caroline Fournet is the Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen.

Caroline Fournet is Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Groningen.