The Crime of Genocide: Then and Now

Evolution of a Crime
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-51931-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 332 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

In this original and thought-provoking collection, the Editors provide a multilayered study of the "crime of crimes". Adopted in 1948, and based on Raphael Lemkin's idea, the definition of genocide belongs to the cornerstones of international criminal law and justice.

This volume focuses on, among other topics, the narrow scope of protected groups, wider domestic adaptations of the definition, denial of genocide, and current legal proceedings related to the crime in front of the ICJ and ICC. In this way its authors, based primarily in Central and Eastern Europe, analyse and discuss the readiness of the definition to meet the challenges of criminal justice in our changing world. The volume thus offers much fresh thinking on the international legal and legal policy complexities of genocide seventy years after the Genocide Convention's entry into force.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sturma, Pavel

Šturma, Pavel

Lipovský, Milan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht

Über Autor(innen)

Pavel Šturma, DrSc. (1963), Charles University, Faculty of Law, in Prague, is Professor of Public International Law at that University. He is also a member of the UN International Law Commission, and published several monographs and many articles in the field of international law, including International Criminal Court and Prosecution of Crimes under International Law (Charles University Press, 2002) and Immunities of States and Their Officials in Contemporary International Law (in co-authorship, RW&W Publishing, 2017).


Milan Lipovský, Ph.D. (1985), Charles University (Prague), is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at that University's Faculty of Law. He has published a monograph and articles on Public International Law, including The Rome Statute's Crime of Aggression After the Kampala Revision Conference (in Czech, Rozkotová, 2017).