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UNINA9910451453703321 |
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Hirsh David |
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Law against genocide [[electronic resource] ] : cosmopolitan trials / / David Hirsh |
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London ; ; Portland, Or., : GlassHouse Press, 2003 |
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1-280-16706-8 |
9786610167067 |
1-135-31152-8 |
1-84314-507-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Genocide |
Trials (Genocide) |
Cosmopolitanism |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index. |
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Front Cover; LawAgainst Genocide; CopyrightPage; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Abbreviated cases; Introduction; Chapter One: Cosmopolitan Law; A cosmopolitan law to limit the rights of states; National sovereignty; The re-emergence of cosmopolitanism; Cosmopolitan law: an emergent property of international law; Cosmopolitan law as a project not a future; Chapter Two: Individual Responsibility and Cosmopolitan Law; Modernity and the Holocaust: Bauman's critique of rational choice; Rationality and the Holocaust reconsidered; Police Battalion 101 and individual responsibility |
Adolf Eichmann and individual responsibilityConclusion on individual responsibility; Chapter Three: Crimes Against Humanity: The actualisation of a Universal; The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg; Crimes against humanity; The Genocide Convention and the problems of defining genocide; Chapter Four: Peace, Security and Justice in theFormer Yugoslavia; Peace before justice: Srebrenica and Dayton; Justice before peace: Kosovo; Omarska: an intimate concentration camp; The UN response: the ICTY; Chapter Five: The |
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Trials of Blaskic and Tadic at the ICTY |
The trial of General Tihomir BlaskicThe trial of Dusko Tadic; Chapter Six: The Sawoniuk Trial: ACosmopolitan Trial Under National Law; The ordinary and extraordinary Andrei Sawoniuk; Ben-Zion Blustein: Holocaust memoir and legal testimony; The evidence of the local witnesses; Sawoniuk under cross-examination; Chapter Seven: Irving v Lipstadt and the Legal Construction of Authoritative Cosmopolitan Narrative; Irving v Lipstadt; The legal construction of cosmopolitan social memory; Chapter Eight: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Bringing a sociologist's insight to legal institutions and narratives, this book is an innovative and timely sociological contribution to current concerns regarding critical cosmopolitanism, human rights and crimes against humanity. |
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UNINA9910457022003321 |
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Autore |
Davidson Marc David |
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Arguing about climate change [[electronic resource] ] : judging the handling of climate risk to future generations by comparison to the general standards of conduct in the case of risk to contemporaries / / Marc David Davidson |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2008 |
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1-282-45384-X |
9786612453847 |
90-485-0834-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (148 p.) |
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Environmental ethics |
Climatic changes - Moral and ethical aspects |
Environmental responsibility |
Electronic books. |
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The work was "financed by the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) in the context of the programme Ethics, Research & |
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Public Policy, and the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM)." |
Originally presented as the author's Ph.D Thesis from the University of Amsterdam. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; General introduction; Chapter 1: An inconvenient truth; Chapter 2: Climate damage as wrongful harm to future generations; Chapter 3: Regulation of climate change and the reasonable man standard; Chapter 4: A social discount rate for climate damage to future generations based on regulatory law; Chapter 5: How reasonable man discounts climate damage; Chapter 6: Parallels in reactionary argumentation in the US congressional debates on the abolition of slavery and the Kyoto Protocol; Summary; Nederlandse samenvatting; Acknowledgements; Curriculum vitae |
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Intergenerational justice requires that climate risks to future generations be handled with the same reasonable care deemed acceptable by society in the case of risks to contemporaries. Such general standards of conduct are laid down in tort law, for example. Consequently, the validity of arguments for or against more stringent climate policy can be judged by comparison to the general standards of conduct applying in the case of risk to contemporaries. That this consistency test is able to disqualify certain arguments in the climate debate is illustrated by a further investigation of the debat |
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