War Crimes Trials and Investigations

1. Front Matter

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2. War Crimes Trials and Investigations: Major Trends and Disciplinary Challenges

   • Jacques Schuhmacher, Jonathan Waterlow

   Pages 1-22

3. Orientation: War Crimes Trials in Theory and Practice from the Middle Ages to the Present

   • Devin O. Pendas

   Pages 23-58

4. Forensic Anthropology: Whose Rules Are We Playing by?—Contextualizing the Role of Forensic Protocols in Human Rights Investigations

   • Tim Thompson, Daniel Jiménez Gaytan, Shakira Bedoya Sánchez, Ariana Ninel Pleitez Quiñónez

   Pages 59-80

5. Anthropometrics: The Application of Anthropometrics to Identify and Assess War Crimes

   • Mary Elisabeth Cox

   Pages 81-109

6. International Legal History: From Atrocity Reports to War Crimes Tribunals—The Roots of Modern War Crimes Investigations in Nineteenth-Century Legal Activism and First World War Propaganda

   • Jan Martin Lemnitzer

   Pages 111-156

7. History: War Crimes in the Past and Present—A Historian’s Perspective

   • Peter Romijn

   Pages 157-191

8. Violence Studies: Social Theoretical Considerations Towards Understanding of War Crimes

   • Christian Gudehus

   Pages 193-226

9. International Relations: Between Theory and Practice, the National and International

   • Yuna Han

   Pages 227-261

10. Responsibility to Protect: Justice and Responsibility—Related but Not Synonymous

    • Alex J. Bellamy

    Pages 263-299

11. Moral Philosophy: The Ethics of War—Before, During and After

    • Brian Orend

    Pages 301-331

12. Erratum to: War Crimes Trials and Investigations

    • Jonathan Waterlow, Jacques Schuhmacher

    Pages E1-E1

13. Back Matter

    Pages 333-338

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This book represents the first multi-disciplinary introduction to the study of war crimes trials and investigations. It introduces readers to the numerous disciplines engaged with this complex subject, including: Forensic Anthropology, Economics and Anthropometrics, Legal History, Violence Studies, International Criminal Justice, International Relations, and Moral Philosophy. The contributors are experts in their respective fields and the chapters highlight each discipline’s major trends, debates, methods and approaches to mass atrocity, genocide, and crimes against humanity, as well as their interactions with adjacent disciplines. Case studies illustrate how the respective disciplines work in practice, including examples from the Allied Hunger Blockade, WWII, the Guatemalan and Spanish Civil Wars, the Former Yugoslavia, and Uganda. Including bibliographical essays to offer readers crucial orientation when approaching the specialist literature in each case, this edited collection equips readers with what they need to know in order to navigate a complex, and until now, deeply fragmented field. A diverse and interdisciplinary body of research, this book will be indispensable reading for scholars of war crimes.

• War Crimes Trials
• Forensic Anthropology
• Legal History
• Criminal Justice
• Anthropometrics
• Moral Philosophy
• History
• Transitional Justice
• ethics of war
• forensic archaeology

• St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Jonathan Waterlow

• Somerville College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  Jacques Schuhmacher

Jonathan Waterlow is Co-Director of the War Crimes Research Network at the University of Oxford, UK, and a Research Associate at the University of Bristol, UK. He previously held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford.


Jacques Schuhmacher is Co-Director of the War Crimes Research Network at the University of Oxford, UK. He is Vanessa Brand Scholar at Somerville College, Oxford, where he is completing an AHRC-funded D.Phil project on the Nazi investigations of allied war crimes and atrocities.

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