Universal jurisdiction and the crime of genocide / Milan Lipovsky. Introduction / Pavel Sturma and Milan Lipovsky -- 13. Theoretical issues and the concept of genocide -- 1. State responsibility and individual criminal responsibility for the crime of genocide / Pavel Sturma -- 2. Atrocity labelling : from crimes against humanity to genocide studies / Markus P. Beham -- Part 2 : Forms of responsibility for the crime of genocide -- 3. Time yet again for judicial creativity : does a purpose-based approach hinder successful prosecutions of genocide cases? / Michala Chadimova -- 4. Attempted henocide in international criminal law / Nikola Kurkova Klimova -- Part 3 : Specially protected groups -- 5. A house with four rooms only? : The protected groups under the definition of genocide / Veronika Bilkova -- 6. The prevention of cultural genocide and the international protection of national minorities / Harald Christian Scheu -- 7. "The victim is the group itself" : the objective and subjective criteria in determining the groups protected against genocide / Katerina Uhlirova -- 8. Invisible genocide : the relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the People with Disabilities / Eliska Mockova -- Part 4 : Denial of crimes and current situations -- 9. The stigma of genocide and the denial of Communist crimes / Tamas Hoffmann -- 10. The denial of Armenian and genocide and the claim of the Rohingya genocide / Katarina Smigova -- 11. The situation in Myanmar and the territorial jurisdiction of the ICC / Kristyna Pelikanova Urbanova -- Part 5 : Genocide internationally and domestically -- 12. The Czech (Czechoslovak) experience with the Genocide Convention / Ondrej Svacek -- 13. Universal jurisdiction and the crime of genocide / Milan Lipovsky.
Summary:
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.
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