Paola Gaeta is a Professor of International Criminal Law at Florence University. Since September 2007 she is also a Professor of International Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and Director of the LL.M. Programme of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law. Her publications include La giustizia cautelare nel diritto internazionale (Interim measures taken by International courts and tribunals) (2000) and The Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (co-edited with A Cassese and JRWD Jones, 2001). She has also published numerous articles on public international law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

...superbly edited and written, offering a comprehensive, between two covers, commentary on the convention and its drawbacks as written...No public library, private collection, or international decision-maker's legal resources would be complete without this comprehensive, but succinct, guidebook on both the historical and contemporary themes which drive the letter and spirit of the UN's Genocide Convention.

• PART I - INTRODUCTION; PART II - THE DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE; PART III - INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GENOCIDE; PART IV - THE REPRESSION OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE; PART V - ACCOUNTABILITY OF STATES FOR GENOCIDE; PART VI - ENFORCING THE CONVENTION THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS; PART VII - THE MECHANICS OF THE CONVENTION; PART VIII - THE CONVENTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Paola Gaeta is a Professor of International Criminal Law at Florence University. Since September 2007 she is also a Professor of International Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and Director of the LL.M. Programme of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law. Her publications include La giustizia cautelare nel diritto internazionale (Interim measures taken by International courts and tribunals) (2000) and The Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (co-edited with A Cassese and JRWD Jones, 2001). She has also published numerous articles on public international law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

...superbly edited and written, offering a comprehensive, between two covers, commentary on the convention and its drawbacks as written...No public library, private collection, or international decision-maker's legal resources would be complete without this comprehensive, but succinct, guidebook on both the historical and contemporary themes which drive the letter and spirit of the UN's Genocide Convention.

• PART I - INTRODUCTION; PART II - THE DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE; PART III - INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GENOCIDE; PART IV - THE REPRESSION OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE; PART V - ACCOUNTABILITY OF STATES FOR GENOCIDE; PART VI - ENFORCING THE CONVENTION THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS; PART VII - THE MECHANICS OF THE CONVENTION; PART VIII - THE CONVENTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Paola Gaeta is a Professor of International Criminal Law at Florence University. Since September 2007 she is also a Professor of International Criminal Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva and Director of the LL.M. Programme of the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Criminal Justice and of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of International Law. Her publications include La giustizia cautelare nel diritto internazionale (Interim measures taken by International courts and tribunals) (2000) and The Statute of the International Criminal Court: A Commentary (co-edited with A Cassese and JRWD Jones, 2001). She has also published numerous articles on public international law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law.

...superbly edited and written, offering a comprehensive, between two covers, commentary on the convention and its drawbacks as written...No public library, private collection, or international decision-maker's legal resources would be complete without this comprehensive, but succinct, guidebook on both the historical and contemporary themes which drive the letter and spirit of the UN's Genocide Convention.

• PART I - INTRODUCTION; PART II - THE DEFINITION OF GENOCIDE; PART III - INDIVIDUAL CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GENOCIDE; PART IV - THE REPRESSION OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE; PART V - ACCOUNTABILITY OF STATES FOR GENOCIDE; PART VI - ENFORCING THE CONVENTION THROUGH THE UNITED NATIONS; PART VII - THE MECHANICS OF THE CONVENTION; PART VIII - THE CONVENTION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY