Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
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Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Misconceptions and Confusion in French Law and Practice

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Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity

Misconceptions and Confusion in French Law and Practice

About this book

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'.

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Information

Publisher
Hart Publishing
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781849463348
eBook ISBN
9781782250708
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
International Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Table of Abbreviations
  7. Table of Cases
  8. Table of Legistation
  9. Introduction
  10. Part 1 Crimes Against Humanity: From Nuremberg to Lyon . . . And Back Again
  11. 1 Trying Klaus Barbie: Setting a Precedent?
  12. 2 Trying Paul Touvier and Maurice Papon: Twisting the Precedent
  13. 3 A Problematic Legacy
  14. Part 2 Punishing Genocide: Too Much To Ask?
  15. 4 The Direct Applicability of the Genocide Convention under French Law
  16. 5 The Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to the Crime of Genocide
  17. 6 The Applicability of Retroactive Criminal Norms
  18. 7 The Contemporary Understanding of the Law of Genocide by the French Judiciary: Dualism in Disguise?
  19. 8 Concluding Observations
  20. Part 3 Why Genocide?
  21. 9 Responding to the Incorrect Ill-Qualification of Vichy France in the Touvier and Papon cases
  22. 10 Responding to the Equalisation of Victims in the Barbie Case
  23. 11 Genocide: A Crime Against the Family?
  24. 12 Conclusion
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index