Introduction: Part I: The Concept and Development of the Law of Genocide; Chapter 1: The Social and the Legal Concept of Genocide, Stefan Kirsch and Christina Kerrl; Chapter 2: Establishing the Foundations for the International Criminalisation of Acts of Genocide: From the Martens Clause to the International Criminal Court, Michael Salter / Maggi Eastwood, Part 2: The Legal Elements of Genocide; Chapter 3:The Actus Reus of Genocide, Caroline Fournet; Chapter 4:The Mens Rea of Genocide, Paul Behrens; Chapter 5: Forms of Perpetration, Michael G Karnavas; Chapter 6: Incitement to Genocide, Wibke Timmermann / William A Schabas; Part 3: The Domestic Prosecution and Sentencing of Genocide; Chapter 7: The Domestic Prosecution of Genocide, Jan Wouters / Sten Verhoeven; Chapter 8: Sentencing Perpetrators of Genocide, Ralph Henham; Part 4: Concluding Thoughts; Chapter 9; The Need For a Genocide Law, Paul Behrens.
Biography
Paul Behrens is Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh. He is associate of the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and member of the Surrey International Law Centre.
Ralph Henham is Professor of Criminal Justice at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. He has researched and published extensively on the theoretical, comparative and policy-related aspects of sentencing and held visiting positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, Sydney and the European University Institute, Florence.
