Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description This module examines the role of international criminal law as a mediator between people and politics in Modern Europe. Historians such as Zara Steiner and Ian Kershaw have described this period as one of hopes and their collapse, with book titles like ‘The Lights that Failed’ and ‘To Hell and Back’. The history of mass atrocities and international criminal law can be told in a similar way. Modern Europe was marked both by industrial warfare, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, and by the emergence of rules and institutions aimed at reducing suffering and holding perpetrators to account. The module approaches this history through an investigation of the legal categories of crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide, and war of aggression. It traces their intellectual origins, beginning with Eastern European lawyers in the 19th century, examines major instances of mass violence such as the Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, and the conflicts in Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and considers how these categories have shaped the relationship between peoples and politics in Modern Europe. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml
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Indicative Reading List | Books: None Articles: None
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