Concept of Genocide in International Criminal Law

Marco Odello, PhD (Madrid), LLM (Nottingham), LLB (Rome), is Reader in Law at Aberystwyth University.Piotr Łubiński, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Security and Civic Education, Pedagogical University, Krakow, Poland.

• Introduction;PART I Theoretical and Historical Framework Rafał Lemkin’s Concept of Genocide vs. the Genocide Convention; Crime of genocide in Ukraine (1932-1933); Kingpins of Contention: Local-level Dynamics of Mobilization in the Rwandan Genocide;PART II International and National Legal Dimensions; The crime of genocide in its (nearly) infinite domestic variety; Responsibility of members of the government and other public officials pursuant to Article IV of the 1948 UN Convention on the Protection and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Transnational Corporations’ Liability for Genocide under International Law;PART III Challenges and New Developments; Probing the Boundaries of the Genocide Convention: Children as a Protected Group; Interaction between Genocide and Superior Responsibility - Conviction for a Special Intent Crime without Proving Special Intent!?; "Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out" or Why Religiously Motivated Terrorism Should Not Be Confused with the Crime of Genocide Blurring the Distinction between Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide; Genocide and Culture: Revisiting their Relationship 70 years after the Genocide Convention; Social Media Incitement to Genocide – ECHR countries perspective;

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