Prospects for a Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Humanity
[Madaline George is the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute Fellow at Washington University School of Law.] More than 70 years after crimes against humanity were defined in Article 6(c) of the London Charter and prosecuted at Nuremberg, the international community may soon have a global convention on crimes against humanity. In Chapter IV of the Report of the International Law Commission on the work of...