Law against genocide [[electronic resource] ] : cosmopolitan trials / / David Hirsh

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784296303321
• Autore: Hirsh David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Portland, Or., : GlassHouse Press, 2003
• ISBN: 1-280-16706-8; 9786610167067; 1-135-31152-8; 1-84314-507-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 341.778
• Soggetti: Genocide; Trials (Genocide); Cosmopolitanism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-167) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.