New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2011. The book explores the use and role of law in the perpetration, redress and prevention of mass harm by the state. It focuses on seven instances of state crime - the genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman state, the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, apartheid South Africa, Ethiopia under Mengistu and the Dergue, the genocide in Rwanda, and the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.