Caroline Fournet

Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Misconceptions and Confusion in French Law and Practice

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78225-070-8
EAN: 9781782250708
Produktnummer: 27966111
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 168 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'752 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Caroline Fournet is Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Groningen .