Based on author's thesis (doctoral-Graduate Institute of International Studies and Development, Geneva, 2012) issued under title: Violations of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International and Transnational Criminal Law.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-351) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. Rethinking hierarchies of human rights in international criminal law; 3. Relating international crimes to ESCR violations; 4. Crimes against humanity revisited: from Nuremberg to Zimbabwe; 5. Four groups of war crimes and the forgotten trial of Gauleiter Greiser; 6. Genocide and the battles Raphael Lemkin did not lose; 7. Torture, slavery and other crimes overlapping with ESCR violations; 8. Corollaries of qualifying ESCR violations as international crimes; 9. Conclusions.

"Is the neglect of economic, social and cultural abuses in international criminal law a problem of positive international law or the result of choices made by lawyers involved in mechanisms such as criminal prosecutions or truth commissions? Evelyne Schmid explores this question via an assessment of the relationship between violations of economic, social and cultural rights and international crimes. Based on a thorough examination of the elements of international crimes, she demonstrates how a situation can simultaneously be described as a violation of economic, social and cultural rights and as an international crime. Against the background of the emerging debates on selectivity in international criminal law and the role of socio-economic and cultural abuses in transitional justice, she argues that international crimes overlapping with violations of economic, social and cultural rights deserve to be taken seriously, for much the same reasons as other international crimes"--