The history and the evolution of the notion of international crimes

International Criminal Justice: Law and Practice from the Rome Statute to Its Review

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 169-180

  Gaeta, Paola ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and affiliate of the Gender Centre at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies   (Switzerland)

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