Book Launch: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
Book Launch: Sights, Sounds, and Sensibilities of Atrocity Prosecutions
Alan Norrie and Christine Schwoebel Patel will be joined by Mark Drumbl & Caroline Fournet and Emma Breeze, Stephanie Benzaquen-Gautier, Agnieszka Jachec-Neale & Annika Jones to discuss their book which offers a refreshing primer on the underappreciated role of aesthetics, time, and emotion in the world of (international criminal) law.
Come join us for a dynamic conversation about the role of music in violence, the ‘look’ of environmental activism in Cambodia, how AI and disinformation tricks all of our senses, and the at times deceptive visualities of inclusiveness at the International Criminal Court.
Wednesday 13 November 2024 | 4.00-6.00pm | MS.04 (Zeeman Building)
This is a hybrid event and an option to join online is available.
Drinks reception to follow.
This event is open to all!
Interested in attending?
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.
Speakers
Professor Mark Drumbl (Washington and Lee University)
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).
Professor Caroline Fournet (University of Exeter)
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).
This event is co-sponsored by the Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) and the Centre for Critical Legal Studies (CCLS).
