Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions

The Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice invites you to a seminar with

 

Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions

 

Description:
Drumbl and Fournet will present the edited collection Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions. The collection was published in 2024, it unlocks the look, sound, smell, taste, and feel of justice for massive human rights abuses. The volume, through twenty-nine expert contributors, examines the dynamics of the five human senses in how atrocity is perceived, remembered, and condemned. This book treks around the globe and extends through time. It reimagines what an atrocity means, reconsiders what drives the manufacture of law, and reboots the role of courtrooms and other mechanisms in the pursuit of justice. Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions unveils how law translates sensory experience into its procedures and institutions, and how humanistic inputs shape perceptions of right and wrong. This book thereby offers a refreshing primer on the underappreciated role of aesthetics, time, and emotion in the world of law.

Bios:
Mark A. Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Law Institute at Washington and Lee University, School of Law. He is author of Atrocity, Punishment, and International Law (CUP, 2007), Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (OUP, 2012), and Informers Up Close: Stories from Communist Prague (with Barbora Hola, OUP, 2024).

Caroline Fournet is Professor of Law at the University of Exeter. Her current research explores the use of forensic evidence both in the investigation and prosecution of atrocity crimes and in the identification of victims and the building of post-atrocity memory. She is editor-in-chief of the International Criminal Law Review (Brill).