false 36219669 1425504 947362 0141024631 9780141024639 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179704993m/947362.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179704993s/947362.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/947362.Crimes_Against_Humanity_The_Struggle_for_Global_Justice 3.87 15 Observer as "a book to stop another Holocaust," Crimes Against Humanity is the first work to weave together history, philosophy, international law, and politics into a comprehensive and engrossing account of the increasingly significant movement for world human rights. Robertson, one of the world's leading human rights lawyers, reveals how human rights, a concept virtually unknown before the second world war, has over the last fifty years penetrated the legal armor of the sovereign state, providing a justification for the international community—with or without the United Nations—to bring down tyrants and torturers. Called "absorbing and important" by the Guardian [London], Crimes Against Humanity defines a whole new field of inquiry.]]> 74479 4.07 76 20 2000 0 0 false Sun Oct 26 01:13:05 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 26 01:13:05 -0700 2008