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Humanitarian Intervention In A Post-Iraq, Post-Darfur World: Is There Now A Duty To Prevent Genocide Even Without Security Council Approval?, Sarah Mazzochi Sep 2011

Humanitarian Intervention In A Post-Iraq, Post-Darfur World: Is There Now A Duty To Prevent Genocide Even Without Security Council Approval?, Sarah Mazzochi

Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law

Is there now a right to unilateral humanitarian intervention in a post-Iraq, post-Darfur world? This Article seeks to answer that question.

Part I will address the background and historical evolution of unilateral humanitarian intervention as well as give examples of state action or inaction in cases of genocide. Part I will also give the legal framework for the U.N. Genocide Convention. Part II will discuss the law of humanitarian intervention as it is commonly accepted today. Part III will point to the future and argue that the law of humanitarian intervention should be, going forward, a jus cogens norm. Part …