By Right of War: The Discipline and Practice of International Law in Imperial Russia, 1868–1917 This project addresses the emergence and consolidation of the international law of war. The intellectual lineage for the law of war dates back at least to Hugo Grotius (1583–1645). But…
“Violence and the Law at War”: Dr. Craig Jones …the Law at War” examines the legality of violence and the weaponization of international law. With a focus on the U.S. and Israel and wars in Iraq and Palestine as…
Australian War Crimes Trials of the 1980s and 1990s: Law Confronts the Shoah …both defense and prosecution. While normative differences do exist between law’s search for truth within the bounds of criminal trial proceedings and historians’ understandings of the facts, the Australian war…
“There Are Clearly Spaces Where Law Enforcement Does Not Belong”: A Conversation with Tracie Keesee …is showing up and implicating criminal justice and law enforcement. But this work is hard. You have to be able to understand the different perspectives and try to help folks…
Criminal Retaliation: A Qualitative Study of Social Control Beyond the Law …that mediate the availability of law. As a result, the structure, process, and forms of retaliation in the real world setting of urban American street crime remain poorly understood. This…
“There is Still No Justice Here!”: Theorizing Women’s Movements’ Influence on Postwar African States Enforcement of Gender-Based Violence Laws …by the law. My book project is a comparative study of the implementation of this international norm in post-war states in Africa. I draw on over 300 interviews conducted in…
“We Have a Lot of Damage to Undo”: A Conversation with Jeremy Travis …about the rule of law and respect for the rule of law. That’s a big concept. It really is the relationship between government and the governed. [Yale law professor] Monica…
“Evidence Doesn’t Seem to Play a Key Role”: A Conversation with David Weisburd …Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law. He also holds an appointment as a professor of criminology, law, and society at…
“Social Disruptions Reveal Who We Are”: A Conversation with Jeffrey Butts …law enforcement intervention, what would you do differently? Or maybe you don’t believe there should be a law enforcement response? I think anyone who thinks that the way to improve…
“We Need to Value Black Lives in the Same Way That We Value Others”: A Conversation with Kami Chavis …Wake Forest University School of Law. A former federal prosecutor, Chavis has spent the bulk of her academic career focusing on issues of police accountability and racial justice. When Michael…