Holocaust, Genocide, and the Law - A Quest for Justice in a Post-Holocaust World

A great deal of contemporary law has a direct connection to the Holocaust. That connection, however, is seldom acknowledged in legal texts and has never been the subject of a full-length scholarly work. This book examines the background of the Holocaust and genocide through the prism of the law; the criminal and civil prosecution of the Nazis and their collaborators for Holocaust-era crimes; and contemporary attempts to criminally prosecute perpetrators for the crime of genocide. It provides the history of the Holocaust as a legal event, and sets out how genocide has become known as the "crime of crimes" under both international law and in popular discourse. It goes on to discuss specific post-Holocaust legal topics, and examines the Holocaust as a catalyst for post-Holocaust international justice. Together, this collection of subjects establishes a new legal discipline, which the author Michael Bazyler labels "Post-Holocaust Law."

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• Authors: Michael Bazyler, Michael (Professor of Law and the 1939 So Bazyler, Michael (Professor of Law and The 1939 Society Scholar in Holocaust and Human Rights Studies Bazyler, Bazyler Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.07.2017
• EAN: 9780190664039
• ISBN: 978-0-19-066403-9
• No. of pages: 394
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Legal History, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Criminal law: procedure and offences