The genocide convention
Subtitle: the travaux préparatoires
By: by Hirad Abtahi and Philippa Webb
Contributors: Webb, Philippa
Series: The travaux préparatoires of multilateral treaties -- v. 2; Travaux préparatoires of multilateral treaties -- v. 2.
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; Brill - Nijhoff; Brill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 2217
ISBN-13: 9789004164185; 9789004173996; 9789004174009
Subjects: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide; Genocide
Other titles: Travaux préparatoires
Description: This work gathers together for the first time in a single publication the records of the multitude of meetings which, in the context of the newly established United Nations, led to the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide on 9 December 1948. This work will enable academics and practitioners easy access to the Genocide Convention's travaux préparatoires- an endeavour that has until now proven extremely difficult. This work will be of paramount importance for the international adjudication of the crime of genocide insofar as recourse to the “general rule of interpretation” and the “supplementary means of interpretation” under the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties is concerned. -- From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

English and French.