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.
Hirad ABTAHI, Philippa WEBB, The Genocide Convention: the Travaux Préparatoires, Brill, 2008 (2 volumes, 2300 pages).
Hirad ABTAHI, diplôme d’études approfondies in international law, is the first Legal Adviser to the International Criminal Court’s Presidency. He was formerly legal officer in the Milošević trial, at the UN International Criminal Tribunal. He has lectured and published in English, French and Persian.
Philippa WEBB, BA (Hons)/LLB (UNSW), LLM (Yale), is Special Assistant to President Rosalyn Higgins and Legal Officer of the International Court of Justice. She was fomerly Associate Legal Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
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