Reducing genocide to law definition, meaning, and the ultimate crime

Could the prevailing view that genocide is the ultimate crime be wrong? Is it possible that it is actually on an equal footing with war crimes and crimes against humanity? Is the power of the word genocide derived from something other than jurisprudence? And why should a hierarchical abstraction ass...

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Main Author: Akhavan, Payam
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012
Series:Cambridge studies in international and comparative law
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