Evelyne Schmid demonstrates how violations of economic, social and cultural rights can overlap with international crimes.

Evelyne Schmid is an associate professor of international law at Université de Lausanne, Switzerland. She was previously based at the Universität Basel, Bangor University and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). She also acted as the project coordinator for the International Criminal Court's Legal Tools Project at TRIAL in Geneva.

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.