Crimes against humanity are a category of international criminal offenses that involve the widespread or systematic targeting of a civilian population by individuals, groups, or governments.

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States.

Genocide, as defined by the United Nations, refers to any act committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group by killing its members, causing serious bodily or mental harm to them, or deliberately inflicting conditions leading to their physical destruction.

The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG), or the Genocide Convention, is an international treaty that criminalizes genocide and obligates state parties to pursue the enforcement of its prohibition.

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (16 August 1897 - 8 May 1960) was a British international lawyer, human rights activist, and judge at the International Court of Justice.

Holocaust studies, or sometimes Holocaust research, is a scholarly discipline that encompasses the historical research and study of the Holocaust.