Protect, but from What? Genocide as a Concept of Moral and Legal Universalism
Protect, but from What? Genocide as a Concept of Moral and Legal Universalism

Summary/Abstract: After almost 60 years of near anonymity, Raphael Lemkin’s legal accomplishments are finally beginning to receive the acknowledgement they are due. The single-minded determination with which Lemkin sought and later drafted the Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of the Crime of Genocide is remarkable. In devising the term “genocide” and codifying it as an international crime, however, he did more than create a law; he gave voice to one of the strongest and most universal moral declarations known to the world—the attempt to exterminate a people because of their religion, culture, ethnicity or race is one the gravest crimes that man can commit.

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