This weekend The Telegraph published a review of 'A Passing Fury', a new book on the British programme of war crimes investigations and trials after WW2 by Andrew Williams, Centre co-director.

Nigel Jones writes: "The abiding impression left by Williams's haunting, sensitive and thoughtful study is ambiguity. Some sort of justice was certainly seen to be done; whether it was really done is more difficult to say."

This book exposes the deeper truth of this controlled scheme of vengeance. Moving from the scripted trial of Göring, Hess and von Ribbentrop, to the makeshift courtrooms where ‘minor’ war criminals (the psychotic SS officers, the brutal guards, the executioners) were prosecuted, A Passing Fury tells the story of the extraordinary enterprise, the investigators, the lawyers and the perpetrators and asks the question: was justice done?

A short piece based on the 'A Passing Fury' was published in Lacuna magazine not long ago. Read the full article here.

On Saturday 23rd April, the Law School's Widening Participation team hosted the prize giving event of the inaugural 'Writing Wrongs' essay competition. Since November, we have been working with 25 pupils from non-traditional backgrounds from eight schools in Coventry and Warwickshire through a series of Saturday workshops in order to improve their research skills and write a 2,500 word essay on the theme of social justice.

The winning essay was written by Gurpreet Dhaliwal from Campion School, Leamington Spa, who wrote an essay entitled ‘Human Trafficking, an underworld crime’. Gurpreet will see her essay published in the Lacuna online magazine and have a paid summer internship with the publication. The runners up were Grace Knowles(Tile Hill Wood School) and Claudi Geraghty (Campion School).

New OUP blog post published by Centre Fellow, Dr Alison Struthers, on the controversial nature of teaching about human rights in schools.

Read the full piece here.