Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

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

• 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

It is a work which will be of central interest to those working in the specialised field of international criminal law but it undoubtedly has value for those working in the fields of transitional justice and legal systems and methods and is a thoughtful contribution to the academy.