2008 marked the sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the Genocide Convention and Universal Declaration of Human …, the United Nations Charter speaks of human rights and to the importance of the rule of law. The Genocide Convention and … concentrating on their European experience from their youth in Central Europe and the early days of the League of Nations to their …

What is genocide? Can a State be held judicially accountable for its commission? What affirmative obligations do States … have to prevent genocide? The International Court of Justice (ICJ) offered new answers to these perennial questions on … February 26 when it held in the Application of the Genocide Convention (“Bosnian Genocide”) case that: (1) Serbia violated its …