The Crime of Genocide: Then and Now

Pavel Šturma, DrSc. (1963), Charles University, Faculty of Law, in Prague, is Professor of Public International Law at that University. He is also a member of the UN International Law Commission, and published several monographs and many articles in the field of international law, including International Criminal Court and Prosecution of Crimes under International Law (Charles University Press, 2002) and Immunities of States and Their Officials in Contemporary International Law (in co-authorship, RW&W Publishing, 2017). Milan Lipovský, Ph.D. (1985), Charles University (Prague), is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher at that University's Faculty of Law. He has published a monograph and articles on Public International Law, including The Rome Statute's Crime of Aggression After the Kampala Revision Conference (in Czech, Rozkotová, 2017).

Foreword  

Claus Kreß



Notes on Contributors


 Introduction

  Pavel Šturma and Milan Lipovský



part 1

Theoretical Issues and the Concept of Genocide

1 State Responsibility and Individual Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Genocide

  Pavel Šturma



2 Atrocity Labelling From Crimes against Humanity to Genocide Studies

  Markus P. Beham



part 2

Forms of Responsibility for the Crime of Genocide

3 Time for Yet Another Judicial Creativity Does a Purpose-Based Approach Hinder Successful Prosecutions of Genocide Cases?

  Michala Chadimová



4 Attempted Genocide in International Criminal Law

  Nikola Kurková Klímová



part 3

Specially Protected Groups

5 A House with Four Rooms Only? The Protected Groups under the Definition of Genocide

  Veronika Bílková



6 The Prevention of Cultural Genocide and the International Protection of National Minorities

  Harald Christian Scheu



7 “The Victim Is the Group Itself” The Objective and Subjective Criteria in Determining the Groups Protected against Genocide

  Kateřina Uhlířová



8 Invisible Genocide The Relevance of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the People with Disabilities

  Eliška Mocková



part 4

Denial of Crimes

9 The Stigma of Genocide and the Denial of Communist Crimes

  Tamás Hoffmann



10 The Denial of Armenian and Rohingya Genocide

  Katarína Šmigová



11 The Situation in Myanmar and the Territorial Jurisdiction of the icc

  Kristýna Pelikánová Urbanová



part 5

Genocide Internationally and Domestically

12 The Czech (Czechoslovak) Experience with the Genocide Convention

  Ondřej Svaček



13 Universal Jurisdiction and the Crime of Genocide

  Milan Lipovský



Bibliography


Index