New Books in Human Rights
Episodes
U.S. Determinization of Genocide in Myanmar: Part One, Roots
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In March of 2022 the U.S. government announced its determination that genocide was committed by the Myanmar military against Rohingya communities in M...
René Provost, "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents" (Oxford UP, 2021)
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Warzones are sometimes described as lawless, but this is rarely the case. Armed insurgents often replace the state as the provider of law and justice ...
Mark Neocleous, "A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order" (Verso, 2021)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of Social Order (Verso, 2021) offers a critical look at policing and the power of the state, exa...
Monika Nalepa, "After Authoritarianism: Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Transitional justice – the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist – has direct implications for democrat...
Erin A. Snider, "Marketing Democracy: The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East" (Cambridge UP. 2022)
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly two decades, the United States devoted more than $2 billion towards democracy promotion in the Middle East with seemingly little impact. To...
Chitranshul Sinha, "The Great Repression: The Story of Sedition in India" (India Viking, 2019)
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Chitranshul Sinha is an advocate on record of the Supreme Court of India and a partner in Dua Associates, Advocates and Solicitors, who primarily prac...
On "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1948, the United Nations presented a document outlining human rights for every person in the world. This document was called the Universal Declarat...
Andrea Ballestero, "A Future History of Water" (Duke UP, 2019)
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water (Duke UP, 2019) trace...
Elizabeth Quay Hutchison, "Workers Like All the Rest of Them: Domestic Service and the Rights of Labor in Twentieth-Century Chile" (Duke UP, 2022)
12 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leah Cargin (Ph.D student, University of Oklahoma) speaks with Elizabeth Quay Hutchison (Professor, University of New Mexico) about Hutchison’s rece...
Adam B. Lerner, "From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics" (Oxford UP, 2022)
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years, calls for reparations and restorative justice, alongside the rise of populist grievance politics, have demonstrated the stubborn resi...
Joel Michael Reynolds, "The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality" (U Minnesota Press, 2022)
09 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality (U Minnesota Press, 2022) investigates the exclusion of and discrimination against disabled peo...
Ken MacLean, "Crimes in Archival Form: Human Rights, Fact Production, and Myanmar" (U California Press, 2022)
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Though human rights monitors talk of fact-finding missions and reports, human rights facts are, like all social phenomena, not in fact found but made ...
Jeffrey D. Pugh, "The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networks and Migrant Human Security" (Oxford UP, 2021)
30 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With much existing research on migration focusing on the Global North—like Europe and the US—Pugh’s The Invisibility Bargain: Governance Networ...
Lavinia Stan and Nadya Nedelsky, "Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice" (Cambridge UP, 2013)
26 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This comprehensive three-volume reference work collects and summarizes the wealth of information available in the field of transitional justice. Trans...
Cynthia M. Horne, "Building Trust and Democracy: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Countries" (Oxford UP, 2017)
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It has become both a normative expectation as well as a practical policy recommendation that context-specific transitional justice measures are needed...
“Returned to Zero”: The Case for Reparations to Civilians in Yemen
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ari Barbalat talked to Ali Jameel, a researcher for Mwatana for Human Rights, about "Returned to Zero: The Case for Reparations to ...
Joanna Bourke, "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence" (Reaktion Books, 2022)
12 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence--what causes it and how we overcome it. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexu...
Adam Jones, "Sites of Genocide" (Routledge, 2022)
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Jones will be familiar to anyone interested in the field of genocide studies. He's published one of the leading textbooks in the field. He's bee...
Jonathan Leader Maynard, "Ideology and Mass Killing: Radical Security Politics and the Infrastructure of Deadly Atrocities" (Oxford UP, 2022)
09 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In research on 'mass killings' such as genocides and campaigns of state terror, the role of ideology is hotly debated. For some scholars, ideologies a...
Christopher Krentz, "Elusive Kinship: Disability and Human Rights in Postcolonial Literature" (Temple UP, 2022)
05 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Christopher Krentz is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, where he has a joint appointment with the departments of English and A...
Amy E. Grubb and Elisabeth Hope Murray, "British Responses to Genocide: The British Foreign Office and Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1923" (Routledge, 2022)
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When I was an undergrad, the chronology of World War One was simple. The war began in August of 1914 and ended in November of 1918. Now, of course, ...
International Association of Genocide Scholars
29 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The International Association of Genocide Scholars is a global, interdisciplinary, non-partisan organization that seeks to further research and teac...
Samantha Power on Hannah Arendt and Human Rights
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode from the Institute’s Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Powe...
Philippe Denis, "The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches: Between Grief and Denial" (James Currey, 2022)
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,...
Asim Qureshi, "I Refuse to Condemn: Resisting Racism in Times of National Security" (Manchester UP, 2020)
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more co...
On Hannah Arendt and Humanitarianism
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the Institute’s Vault, we have an excerpt from a two day symposium--“Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher’s impact on...
The Future of Hong Kong: A Discussion with Ho-Fung Hung
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hong Kong has always existed on the edge of empires, providing services and capabilities to powerful nations. And even to this day when the one countr...
B. J. Crawford and E. G. Waldman, "Menstruation Matters: Challenging the Law's Silence on Periods" (NYU Press, 2022)
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Approximately half the population menstruates for a large portion of their lives, but the law is mostly silent about the topic. Until recently, most p...
Lucia M. Rafanelli, "Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention" (Oxford UP, 2021)
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Promoting Justice Across Borders: The Ethics of Reform Intervention (Oxford UP, 2021) political scientist Lucia M. Rafanelli develo...
The Struggle for Hong Kong: A Conversation with Jeffrey Wasserstrom
01 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why should we view the anti-China protests that began in Hong Kong in 2019 through a comparative lens? How do earlier episodes in Hong Kong’s histor...
War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is a recorded panel discussion on “War and Peace: America's Humane War and the Crisis in Ukraine.” The panel was part of the Annual C...
The Human Tragedy in Yemen
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The civil war in Yemen has going on since 2014. Noria al-Hussini, Communications Director of Mwatana for Human Rights, discusses the war and the n...
Francesca Lessa, "The Condor Trials: Transnational Repression and Human Rights in South America" (Yale UP, 2022)
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the New Books in Latin America Studies podcast, Kenneth Sánchez spoke with Dr Francesca Lessa about her interesting new book The ...
Elizabeth Anker, "Ugly Freedoms" (Duke UP, 2022)
24 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With me on today’s show is Professor Elizabeth Anker, whose most recent book, Ugly Freedoms (Duke UP, 2022), works to understand how the idea of f...
Nathan A. Kurz, "Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust (Cambridge UP, 2020), Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught relationship between Jewish...
Mark Fathi Massoud, "Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Western analysts have long denigrated Islamic states as antagonistic, even antithetical, to the rule of law. Mark Fathi Massoud tells a different stor...
Paul T. Murray, "Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed: Franciscans Working for Peace and Justice" (AAFH, 2022)
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity as the post-war economy exploded. While Americans pondered affluence, U.S. ...
Lori A. Allen, "A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine" (Stanford UP, 2020)
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Lori Allen’s A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine (Stanford UP, 2020) is a deep engagement with Palestinian political h...
Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman, "Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century" (Princeton UP, 2022)
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology. But in recent decades a new breed of media-savvy strongmen has been redesigning au...
Mikaela Rabinowitz, "Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice" (Routledge, 2021)
17 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mikaela Rabinowitz’s Incarceration without Conviction: Pretrial Detention and the Erosion of Innocence in American Criminal Justice (Routledge, 20...
Jennifer Natalya Fink, "All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship" (Beacon Press, 2022)
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Disability is often described as a tragedy, a crisis, or an aberration, though 1 in 5 people worldwide have a disability. Why is this common human exp...
Peer Schouten, "Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Central Africa" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
08 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Peer Schouten, of the Danish Institute for International Studies, has written a breathtaking book. Roadblock Politics: The Origins of Violence in Cen...
Wen Liu, et al., "Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I talk to two of the editors of Reorienting Hong Kong’s Resistance: Leftism, Decoloniality, and Internationalism (Palgrave MacMil...
Marc Raboy, "Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel" (Oxford UP, 2022)
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind It started with a coincidence--when Marc Ra...
Andrew Leon Hanna, "25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Leon Hanna's book 25 Million Sparks: The Untold Story of Refugee Entrepreneurs (Cambridge UP, 2022) takes readers inside the Za'atari refugee...
Colleen Wessel-McCoy, "Freedom Church of the Poor: Martin Luther King Jr's Poor People's Campaign" (Fortress Academic, 2021)
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. looked over into the promised land and tried to discern how we would get there, he called the poor to le...
Audrey L. Comstock, "Committed to Rights: UN Human Rights Treaties and Legal Paths for Commitment and Compliance" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
International treaties are the primary means for codifying global human rights standards. However, nation-states are able to make their own choices in...
Pandemic Perspectives 12: Politicizing the COVID Pandemic
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this Pandemic Perspectives Podcast, Ideas Roadshow founder and host Howard Burton talks to Michael Berry, Director of the UCLA Center for Chinese...
Adam Day, "States of Disorder, Ecosystems of Governance: Complexity Theory Applied to UN Statebuilding in the DRC and South Sudan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today's vision of world order is founded upon the concept of strong, well-functioning states, in contrast to the destabilizing potential of failed or ...
Rana Siu Inboden, "China and the International Human Rights Regime: 1982–2017" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
23 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In China and the International Human Rights Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Rana Siu Inboden examines the evolution of China’s posture ...
Heba Gowayed, "Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential" (Princeton UP, 2022)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the world confronts the largest refugee crisis since World War II, wealthy countries are being called upon to open their doors to the displaced, wi...
Irune Gabiola, "Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres" (Peter Lang, 2020)
18 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Affect, Ecofeminism, and Intersectional Struggles in Latin America: A Tribute to Berta Cáceres (Peter Lang, 2020), Irune del Rio Gabiola examin...
Sally Hayden, "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route" (Melville House, 2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Late one night, journalist Sally Hayden received an urgent message on Facebook: “Sally, we need your help.” It was from a group of Eritrean refuge...
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick et al., "Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice" (Oxford UP, 2022)
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right...
Sarah G. Phillips, "When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland" (Cornell UP, 2020)
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing cou...
Mark L. Clifford, "Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere" (St. Martin's Press, 2022)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this account of the rapid erosion of liberties, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil and political rights in Hong Kong, Mark L. Cliffo...
Maha Hilal, "Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11" (Broadleaf Books, 2022)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In Innocent Until Proven Muslim: Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and the Muslim Experience Since 9/11 published in 2022 with Broadleaf Books, Maha...
Sofia Stolk, "The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror" (Routledge, 2021)
13 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Sofia Stolk’s The Opening Statement of the Prosecution in International Criminal Trials: A Solemn Tale of Horror (Routledge, 2021) addresses t...
Postscript: Post-Roe Politics
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s Postscript uniquely engages abortion politics by addressing structural political issues (voter suppression, gerrymandering, dilutions of m...
Louisa Lim, "Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong" (Riverhead Books, 2022)
06 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this timely book, award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger, Louisa Lim, weaves together Hong Kong's fraught political and social history ...
Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in the Fishing Industry
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Forced labor and human trafficking in fisheries, albeit present in most parts of the world, have gone unnoticed for many years. Fishers at sea are out...
Raymond Kwun-Sun Lau, "Responding to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Protection First and Justice Later" (Routledge, 2021)
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, audiences in the mid-1990s watched the mass atrocities unfolding in Rwanda and Srebrenica in horror and disbelief. Emerging from the...
K. Grabska and C. R. Clark-Kazak, "Documenting Displacement: Questioning Methodological Boundaries in Forced Migration Research" (McGill-Queen's UP, 2022)
04 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Legal precarity, mobility, and the criminalization of migrants complicate the study of forced migration and exile. Traditional methodologies can obscu...
Anthony Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America" (U Minnesota Press, 2019)
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It’s no secret that the United States has the most expansive prison system of any nation in the world. And the US carceral system overwhelmingly and...
Susan H. Allen, "Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach" (Routledge, 2022)
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Susan H. Allen's Interactive Peacemaking: A People-Centered Approach (Routledge, 2022) examines the theory and practice of interactive peacemaking, ...
Fiona De Londras, "The Practice and Problems of Transnational Counter-terrorism" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The attacks of 9/11 changed the course of the global counter-terrorism order which has entrenched a system of global governance. This institutional c...
Kim Kelly, "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" (Atria, 2022)
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights ...
Florence Ashley, "Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis" (U British Columbia Press, 2022)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NB: This interview contains explicit language. In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 2...
Rachel Hall Sternberg, "The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights" (U Texas Press, 2021)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane di...
David P. Forsythe, "Advanced Introduction to the Politics of International Human Rights" (Edward Elgar, 2021)
25 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Human rights in public policy are constructed by diplomats and politicians in an international legislative process, not discovered amongst the clou...
The University Network for Human Rights: A Discussion with Jim Calvallaro
18 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The University Network for Human Rights facilitates supervised undergraduate engagement in the practice of human rights at colleges and universities i...
Vicki Squire, "Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
11 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rejecting claims that migration is a crisis for Europe, Europe's Migration Crisis: Border Deaths and Human Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2020...
Jason K. Stearns, "The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo" (Princeton UP, 2022)
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a "forever war"--a perpetual cycle of war, c...
Jason De Leon, "The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail" (U California Press, 2015)
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How can you integrate archaeology and photography with ethnographic research to understand the experiences of clandestine migrants? Today we talk with...
Labor Exploitation and Human Trafficking in Businesses
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the modern world, human trafficking and slavery take various forms: one such example is forced labor. But understanding exactly how and where force...
Kevin O'Sullivan, "The NGO Moment: The Globalisation of Compassion from Biafra to Live Aid" (Cambridge UP, 2021))
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kevin O’Sullivan talks about his book on aid-focused NGOs from Ireland, Britain, and Canada in the 1960s-80s, The NGO Moment: The ...
Gene Zubovich, "Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States" (UPenn Press, 2022)
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The study of the religious right has in many ways overshadowed other strands of U.S. religious history in the 20th century. This is owed in no small ...
Excluded from Society and Rights: The Experiences of Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Southeastern Myanmar (Burma). The Myanmar military has carried out arial attacks on villages: targeting schools, libraries, and villagers’ agricultu...
Firmin Debrabander, "Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
03 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age, and we, the digital citizens, are its principal threat, willingly surrendering it to avail ourselves...
Eva Fodor, "The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary" (Palgrave, 2021)
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary (Palgrave, 2021) explains a new type of political order that emerged in Hungary in 2010: a form of authori...
Boyd van Dijk, "Preparing for War: the Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions" (Oxford UP, 2022)
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape contemporary debates a...
Piers Gooding, "A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This book cuts new ground by applying a human rights lens of analysis to domestic mental health laws. It makes a timely contribution into the discours...
Wouter Werner, "Repetition and International Law" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Acts of repetition abound in international law. Security Council Resolutions typically start by recalling, recollecting, recognising or reaffirming pr...
Walter Dorn and Andrew Bartles-Smith, "Hinduism and International Humanitarian Law"
16 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Raj Balkaran interviews Walter Dorn (Professor of Defence Studies, Royal Military College) and Andrew Bartles-Smith (Head of Global Affairs, Inter...
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, "Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas" (U Texas Press, 2021)
14 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Max Krochmal and Todd Moye’s Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas (University of Texas Press, 2021) is a...
Sydney A. Halpern, "Dangerous Medicine: The Story Behind Human Experiments with Hepatitis" (Yale UP, 2021)
09 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From 1942 through 1972, American biomedical researchers deliberately infected people with hepatitis. Government-sponsored researchers were attempting ...
Michelle Jurkovich, "Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the Global Fight Against Hunger" (Oxford UP, 2020)
07 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Food insecurity poses one of the most pressing development and human security challenges in the world. Feeding the Hungry: Advocacy and Blame in the ...
Paul Gowder, "The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation" (Hart Publishing, 2021)
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Hart, 2021), Dr. Paul Gowder focuses on examining the ideals of ...
Ann M. Schneider, "Amnesty in Brazil: Recompense After Repression, 1895-2010" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 1895, forty-seven rebel military officers contested the terms of a law that granted them amnesty but blocked their immediate return to the armed fo...
Daniel Groll, "Conceiving People: Genetic Knowledge and the Ethics of Sperm and Egg Donation" (Oxford UP, 2021)
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, tens of thousands of children are conceived every year with donated gametes. When people decide to create a child with donated g...
Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, "The Persistence of Slavery: An Economic History of Child Trafficking in Nigeria" (U Massachusetts Press, 2021)
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Despite efforts to abolish slavery throughout Africa in the nineteenth century, the coercive labor systems that constitute "modern slavery" have conti...
Courtney Hillebrecht, "Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2021) is at the forefront of a ne...
Conflicted Citizenship in Vietnam: Between Grassroots Mobilization and State Repression
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Does ‘citizenship’ exist in a socialist or communist context? If it does, what would this mean in the case of Vietnam? To what extent do the Vietn...
Putin's Attempt to Hide the Crimes of Stalinism
30 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For the past 30 years, a group of Russian scholars have dedicated themselves to uncovering the crimes of Stalinism. Their organization, Memorial, has...
Nicole Fox, "After Genocide: Memory and Reconciliation in Rwanda" (U Wisconsin Press, 2021)
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of unthinkable atrocities, it is reasonable to ask how any population can move on from the experience of genocide. Simply remembering the ...
Lucie Fremlova, "Queer Roma" (Routledge, 2021)
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lucie Fremlova's book Queer Roma (Routledge, 2021) offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterog...
Noah Weisbord, "The Crime of Aggression: The Quest for Justice in an Age of Drones, Cyberattacks, Insurgents, and Autocrats" (Princeton UP, 2019)
24 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On July 17, 2018, starting an unjust war became a prosecutable international crime alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Instea...
Mark S. Berlin, "Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes" (Oxford UP, 2020)
23 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Political Scientist Mark Berlin’s new book, Criminalizing Atrocity: The Global Spread of Criminal Laws Against International Crimes (Oxford UP, 20...
Luke Glanville, "Sharing Responsibility: The History and Future of Protection from Atrocities" (Princeton UP, 2021)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The idea that states share a responsibility to shield people everywhere from atrocities is presently under threat. Despite some early twenty-first cen...
Henry Redwood, "The Archival Politics of International Courts" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The archives produced by international courts have received little empirical, theoretical or methodological attention within international criminal ju...