Round Table (Full Symposium): What’s Raphaël Lemkin Got to do with Genocide Studies? A Conversation on Gender, Culture, Economics, Categorical Violence, and Colonization with Professors Sarah Federman, Dirk Moses, Max Pensky, and Scott Straus

The history of Rapha'l Lemkin and the UN Genocide Convention

“…At Nuremberg, the crime of genocide came to be positioned as different from crimes against humanity, when Lemkin had first conceived of genocide as a crime against humanity (Irvin-Erickson 2017, 142;King 2017). We also miss the fact that the trial of Arthur Greiser in 1 For further discussion of the themes of this chapter, see: Moses, Federman, Straus, Pensky, and Irvin-Erickson (2022).…”

“…On the significance of Lemkin's expertise as an international economic lawyer, see Pensky's contribution toMoses, Federman, Straus, Pensky, and Irvin-Erickson (2022).Douglas Irvin-Erickson -9781800379343 Downloaded from PubFactory at 03/27/2023 03:22:32AM via free access…”