Atrocity speech law : foundation, fragmentation, fruition

Atrocity speech law : foundation, fragmentation, fruition / Gregory S. Gordon.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the international law encompassing hate speech. Prof. Gordon provides a broad analysis of the entire jurisprudential output related to speech and gross human rights violations for courts, government officials, and scholars. The book is organized into thr...

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Main Author: Gordon, Gregory S. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Hate speech > Law and legislation.
Atrocities > Law and legislation.
Hate crimes > Law and legislation.
War crimes.
Genocide.
International law and human rights.
LAW > Constitutional.
LAW > Public.
Atrocities > Law and legislation
Genocide
Hate crimes > Law and legislation
Hate speech > Law and legislation
International law and human rights
War crimes
Hate speech.
Crimes against humanity.
Persecution.
History.
Case-law.
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
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Table of Contents:
  • Speech and atrocity : an historical sketch
  • International human rights law and domestic law
  • The birth of atrocity speech law : Nuremberg and the foundational statutes
  • The birth of atrocity speech law : the foundational ad hoc tribunal cases and offense elements
  • Problems regarding the crime of direct and public incitement to commit genocide
  • Problems regarding persecution, instigation, and ordering
  • The absence of criminal prohibitions regarding hate speech and war crimes
  • Fixing incitement to genocide
  • Fixing persecution, instigation, and ordering
  • Adopting incitement to commit war crimes
  • Restructuring : a unified liability theory for atrocity speech law.

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