In this paper I attempt to rescue the notion of a crime against humanity from the charge that it is either redundant or else a pseudo-concept. I argue that crimes against humanity are gross violations of basic human rights when the categories of neither war criminality nor sovereignty are available.

Categories: Papers My Wife Said I Should Have Published Long Ago, Social and Political Philosophy

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