https://lettersblogatory.com/2016/09/07/vivian-curran-fsia-immunity-genocide-restatement-fourth/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:55:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://lettersblogatory.com/2016/09/07/vivian-curran-fsia-immunity-genocide-restatement-fourth/#comment-2632 Wed, 07 Sep 2016 14:05:01 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=23267#comment-2632 I’m highly sympathetic to efforts of the heirs of Holocaust victims to recover looted property, including art. Still, I find the reasoning of Simon unpersuasive. What does it mean to say that expropriation is not just a means of carrying out genocide, but genocide itself? For legal and political reasons, I think it is important to police the boundaries of how we define genocide, and outright theft, even if motivated by racial hatred (for example), just isn’t the same as genocide as defined, for example, in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

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