Justice after Atrocity: A Cosmopolitan Pluralist Approach

Wednesday 28 January 2009

Mordan Hall, St Hugh's College, Oxford

Professor Drumbl at the lectern
Mark Drumbl, Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute, Washington and Lee University

Why do ordinary people perpetrate genocide and crimes against humanity? How can these perpetrators be held accountable? Are international prosecutions effective? Is imprisonment a fitting punishment?

This lecture explores the potential and limits of liberal criminal law as a method of accountability in the aftermath of atrocity.

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