Law against genocide [[electronic resource] ] : cosmopolitan trials / / David Hirsh
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| Autore: |
Hirsh David
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| Titolo: |
Law against genocide [[electronic resource] ] : cosmopolitan trials / / David Hirsh
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Portland, Or., : GlassHouse Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 341.778 |
| Soggetto topico: | Genocide |
| Trials (Genocide) | |
| Cosmopolitanism | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Law against genocide |
| ISBN: | 1-280-16706-8 |
| 9786610167067 | |
| 1-135-31152-8 | |
| 1-84314-507-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784296303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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