The Genocide Convention sixty years after its adoption / edited by Christoph Safferling and Eckart Conze.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Genocide Convention sixty years after its adoption / Christoph Saferling and Eckart Conze -- Genocide in international law and international relations prior to 1948 / William A. Schabas -- Raphael Lemkin and "genocide" at Nuremberg, 1945-46 / John Q. Barrett -- The United Nations and the origins of the Genocide Convention 1946-48 / Jost Dülffer -- Strategies for "genocide trials" after World War II : how the Allied powers deal with the phenomenon of genocide in Occupied Germany / Wolfgang Form -- The Holocaust and the Genocide Convention of 1948 / Herbert Reginbogin -- Genocide prevention and the dynamics of conflict / Ulrich Wagner and Thorsten Bonacker -- War crimes, genocide trials and Vergangenheitspolitik : the German case / Annette Weinke -- Genocide and the Genocide Convention in Israel / Moche Zimmermann -- The policy element in genocide : when is it required by international rules? / Antonio Cassese -- The two notions of genocide : distinguishing macro phenomena and individual misconduct / Stefan Kirsch -- Different forms of participation in genocide / Henning Radtke -- The special intent requirement in the crime of genocide / Christoph Safferling -- The challenge of genocide trials : "the Cambodian situation" / Jürgen Assmann -- The International Criminal Court and the crime of genocide / Hans-Peter Kaul -- The crime of genocide applied in practice : selected aspects of the jurisprudence of the ad hoc Tribunals' Appeals Chambers / Matthias Schuster -- International genocide trials : three case studies / Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca and Margaret Patten Knowlan -- The ICJ judgment in the Bosnian genocide case and beyond : a need to reconceptualise? / Anja Seibert-Fohr -- Genocide and the International Court of Justice / Bruno Simma -- The trial of Adolf Eichmann and other genocide trials / Gabriel Bach -- The Auschwitz trial at the Landgericht Frankfurt and its importance for the prohibition of genocide / Heinz Düx -- The Nuremberg trial 1945-1946 / Whitney R. Harris.