Hart Publishing
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Misconceptions and Confusion in French Law and Practice
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9781849463348
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9781849463348
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$119.53
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: Misconceptions and Confusion in French Law and Practice
$119.53
This book explores the ambiguities of the French law of genocide by exposing the inexplicable dichotomy between a progressive theory and an overly conservative practice. Based on the observation that the crime of genocide has remained absent from French courtrooms to the benefit of crimes against humanity, this research dissects the reasons for this absence, reviewing and analysing the potential legal obstacles to the judicial use of the law of genocide before contemplating the definitional impact of this judicial reluctance and the consequent confusion between the two crimes. Whilst it uses the French law of genocide and related case law on crimes against humanity as its focal points, the book further adopts a more general standpoint, suggesting that the French misunderstandings of the crime of genocide might ultimately be symptomatic of a more widespread misconception of the crime of genocide as a crime perpetrated against 'a group'.
| Author: Caroline Fournet |
| Publisher: Hart Publishing |
| Publication Date: Jan 31, 2013 |
| Number of Pages: 168 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1849463344 |
| ISBN-13: 9781849463348 |
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