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The Transformation Of The Laws Of War Into Humanitarian Law, Mark Antaki
The Transformation Of The Laws Of War Into Humanitarian Law, Mark Antaki
Studio for Law and Culture
This study undertakes a genealogy of crimes against humanity. It inquires into key historical transformations that preceded the official birth of crimes against humanity in positive international law. The study brings to light changes in understandings of law, politics, and human being-together that accompany the articulation of crimes against humanity.
To speak of crimes against humanity is to speak the death of God. With the French Revolution, man displaces God as ground and measure of law and politics, leading to the articulation of crimes against humanity. The man who displaces God is “natural man,” a man who is naturally …