'Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime' by Professor Payam Akhavan

The Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL), University of Cambridge hosts a regular Friday lunchtime lecture series on key areas of International Law. Previous subjects have included UN peacekeeping operations, the advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, the crime of aggression, whaling, children and military tribunals, and theories and practices for proving individual responsibility criminal responsibility for genocide and crimes against humanity. This lecture, entitled 'Reducing Genocide to Law: Definition, Meaning, and the Ultimate Crime', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 22 February 2013 by Professor Payam Akhavan, Professor of International Law, McGill University. For further reading on the topic, please see Professor Akhavan's book, Reducing Genocide to Law, published in 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Please note, the question and answer sections of LCIL lectures are omitted to facilitate a free and frank discussion with participants. For more information about the series, please see the Lauterpacht Centre website at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk (Photo: Cover extract from Akhavan, 'Reducing Genocide to Law', CUP, 2012 showing Eleanor Roosevelt dining with delegates in Paris during the 1948 meeting of the UN General Assembly at which both the Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were adopted.) This entry provides an audio source for iTunes U.