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2 Miskolc J. Int'l L. 60 (2005)
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handle is hein.journals/miskolc2 and id is 189 raw text is: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GENOCIDE AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (Editor in Chief: Dinah L. Shelton) A brand new publication is now available related to the very actual issue of International Criminal Law. The three volumes were published in 2005 by Macmillan Reference (USA). The authors intended to create a global introduction into every dominant aspects of the main subject. As the issue of International Criminal Law affects numerous cases world-wide in the field of Public International Law, and raises many criminal and humanitarian legal, world-political and human rights questions, the book consists of three volumes and almost 1500 pages. As the editors achieved the aim to give an appropriate survey about the criminal aspects of International Law, this book is suitable to be used for their educational goals as well. The Editor in Chief is Dinah L. Shelton from the George Washington University Law School. Her colleagues, the Associate Editors are outstanding experts of International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law: Howard Adelman (Princeton University; Woodrow Wilson School; York University, Canada), Frank Chalk (Department of History, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies), Alexandre Kiss (French National Centre for Scientific Research) and William A. Schabas (Irish Centre for Human Rights; National University of Ireland, Galway). More than 300 authors contributed to the editorial board. Here can be mentioned names of the most important representatives of the literature in the field of International Humanitarian and Criminal Law such as M. Cherif Bassiouni, James Crawford, Benjamin B. Ferencz, Jos6 Sinchez, but also the former Hungarian judge of the International Court of Justice, Gaza Herczegh. The Encyclopedia introduces the different symptoms related to genocide and crimes against humanity in an alphabetical order. Here are described the very actual issues belonging to these problems. The conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Chechnya, Iraq and Rwanda can be mentioned as examples for territories which are in the centre of attention of the recent world and also of this book. Differences and atrocities between ethnic groups are still problems to solve, international crimes committed in wars in large numbers are troubles of the presence. This issue raises also the question how to make the procedures in these cases more efficient. www.mjil.hu Miskolc Journal of International Law VOLUME 2. (2005) No. 2. Pp. 60-61. 60

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