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Genocide in International Law: The Crimes of Crimes. By William A. Schabas. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 607. Index. $175, cloth; $59.95, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2017

Diane Marie Amann*
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis, School of Law

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2001

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References

1 See Raphael Lemkin, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe 79 (1944).

2 See Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Dec. 9, 1948, 78 UNTS 277.

3 See, e.g., Chalk, Frank & Jonassohn, Kurt, The History and Sociology of Genocide (1990)Google Scholar; Kuper, Leo, Genocide: Its Political Use in The Twentieth Century (1982)Google Scholar.

4 Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosn. & Herz. v. Yugo.), Provisional Measures, 1993 ICJ Rep. 325, 431-32, paras. 68-70 (Sept 13) (sep. op. Lauterpacht, J. ad hoc).

5 See Siderman de Blake v. Republic of Argentina, 965 F.2d 699, 717 (9th Cir. 1992), cert, denied, 507 U.S. 1017 (1993).

6 GA Res. 96 (I) (Dec. 11, 1946).

7 Prosecutor v. Akayesu, Judgment, Case No. ICTR-96-4-T (Sept. 2, 1998).

8 See id, paras. 516, 701.

9 See id., paras. 170,702.