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The Curious Criminality Of Mass Atrocity: Diverse Actors, Multiple Truths, And Plural Responses, Mark Drumbl Oct 2014

The Curious Criminality Of Mass Atrocity: Diverse Actors, Multiple Truths, And Plural Responses, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Women As Perpetrators: Agency And Authority In Genocidal Rwanda, Mark Drumbl, Nicole Hogg Dec 2013

Women As Perpetrators: Agency And Authority In Genocidal Rwanda, Mark Drumbl, Nicole Hogg

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Rights, Culture, And Crime: The Role Of Rule Of Law For The Women Of Afghanistan, Mark A. Drumbl Sep 2013

Rights, Culture, And Crime: The Role Of Rule Of Law For The Women Of Afghanistan, Mark A. Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

This Article explores the role of rule of law in redressing crimes and human rights abuses committed against the women of Afghanistan. Mainstream discourse approaches the situation binarily, obliging women to choose between international and often distant human rights, on the one hand, or proximate cultural/religious norms, on the other, in order to adjudicate gender crimes. This can lead either to externalized justice or, in the case of the implementation of Afghan local law, to renewed victimization of women in the name of redressing abuses suffered by other women. Local law in Afghanistan is reflected in codes such as the …


The Push To Criminalize Aggression: Something Lost Amid The Gains?, Mark A. Drumbl Jan 2013

The Push To Criminalize Aggression: Something Lost Amid The Gains?, Mark A. Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over the crime of aggression, but the Rome Statute fails to define the crime. A Special Work- ing Group on the Crime of Aggression, however, has made considerable progress in developing a definition. The consensus that has emerged favors a narrow definition. Three characteristics animate this consensus: (1) that state action is central to the crime; (2) that acts of aggression involve inter- state armed conflict; and (3) that criminal responsibility attaches only to very top political or military leaders. This Article normatively challenges this consensus. I argue that expanding the scope of the …


International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series, Roger Alford, Laura Dickinson, Mark Drumbl, Karen Knop, Diane Orentlicher, Brad Roth, Edward Swaine Jan 2013

International Law Colloquia, Spring 2006 Series, Roger Alford, Laura Dickinson, Mark Drumbl, Karen Knop, Diane Orentlicher, Brad Roth, Edward Swaine

Mark A. Drumbl

Spring 2006 Presenters: February 10: Laura A. Dickinson (University of Connecticut School of Law), Democracy and Trust February 17: Mark A. Drumbl (Washington and Lee University School of Law), Atrocity and Punishment February 24: Karen Knop (University of Toronto Faculty of Law), Enemies and Outlaws: War and the Public/Private Citizen March 3: Brad R. Roth (Wayne State University Department of Political Science), State Sovereignty, International Legality, and Moral Disagreement April 7: Diane Orentlicher (American University Washington College of Law), Whose Justice? Reconciling Universal Jurisdiction with Democratic Principles April 14: Roger P. Alford (Pepperdine University School of Law), Foreign Relations as …


“Germans Are The Lords And Poles Are The Servants”: The Trial Of Arthur Greiser In Poland, 1946, Mark Drumbl Dec 2012

“Germans Are The Lords And Poles Are The Servants”: The Trial Of Arthur Greiser In Poland, 1946, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Process For The Dispossessed: Procedural Rights From Magna Carta To Modern International Law, Mark Drumbl Dec 2012

Process For The Dispossessed: Procedural Rights From Magna Carta To Modern International Law, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Re-Imagining Child Soldiers, Mark Drumbl Nov 2012

Re-Imagining Child Soldiers, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Reimagining Child Soldiers In International Law And Policy, Mark Drumbl Oct 2012

Reimagining Child Soldiers In International Law And Policy, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


The Facts About Child Soldiers, Mark Drumbl Jul 2012

The Facts About Child Soldiers, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


From Politics To Law, To Tedium, And Back, Mark Drumbl Dec 2011

From Politics To Law, To Tedium, And Back, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Reimagining Child Soldiers In International Law And Policy, Mark Drumbl Dec 2011

Reimagining Child Soldiers In International Law And Policy, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

Book Reviews

Leena Grover, 24 European J. of Int'l L. 549 (2013) (reviewing Mark Drumbl, Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (2012)). Available here.

Lingling Zhu and Huan Lu, 11 Chinese J. Intl. L. 823 (2012) (reviewing Mark Drumbl, Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (2012)). Available here.

Lewis Brooks, Thing Africa Press (Nov. 23, 2012 5:09 PM), http://thinkafricapress.com/ (reviewing Mark Drumbl, Reimagining Child Soldiers in International Law and Policy (2012)). Available here.

Rick Wilson, Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices ( Sept. 20, 2012 11:08 AM), http://www.lawfareblog.com/ (reviewing Mark Drumbl, Reimagining Child Soldiers …


Child Soldiers, Transitional Justice, And The Architecture Of Post Bellum Settlements, Mark Drumbl Dec 2011

Child Soldiers, Transitional Justice, And The Architecture Of Post Bellum Settlements, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


The Crime Of Genocide, Mark Drumbl Dec 2010

The Crime Of Genocide, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Reimagining Child Soldiers, Mark Drumbl Dec 2010

Reimagining Child Soldiers, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


The (Al)Lure Of The Genocide Trial: Justice, Reconciliation, And Reconstruction In Rwanda, Mark Drumbl Dec 2000

The (Al)Lure Of The Genocide Trial: Justice, Reconciliation, And Reconstruction In Rwanda, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.


Civil, Constitutional And Criminal Justice Responses To Female Partner Abuse: Proposals For Reform, Mark Drumbl Dec 1998

Civil, Constitutional And Criminal Justice Responses To Female Partner Abuse: Proposals For Reform, Mark Drumbl

Mark A. Drumbl

No abstract provided.