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In Law and Inhumanity, Luigi Corrias explores fundamental philosophical issues underlying the law and politics of atrocity crimes within international criminal justice. Focusing on understanding the experiences of victims and perpetrators, Corrias draws on numerous disciplines to construct his conceptual framework while also using several case studies to examine important issues including references to 'humanity' in the discourse on atrocity crimes; the need for a first-person plural perspective of a 'We' within international criminal justice; the experiences of dehumanization of both victims and perpetrators; the temporalities of suffering and justice; and the tension between individual criminal responsibility and structural violence.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Atrocity crimes, the community of humanity, and the experience of inhumanity; 2. 'We' and crimes against humanity; 3. Crimes against humanity, dehumanization and rehumanization: the case of Duch; 4. Estranged from the World: the experience of dehumanization and its normative implications; 5. Law, time, and inhumanity: judging the imprescriptible; 6. Silent claims and the limits of international criminal law; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Luigi Corrias is Associate Professor in the Department of Legal Theory and Legal History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is the author of The Passivity of Law: Competence and Constitution in the European Court of Justice (2011), for which the Netherlands Association for Philosophy of Law awarded him the Prize for the Best Dissertation in Legal Philosophy in the Netherlands and Belgium in 2009–10. For his research on Law and Inhumanity, he received a fellowship from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) in 2019–2020.
