Law and Inhumanity
Law and Inhumanity
Dehumanization, Silent Claims and Atrocity Crimes
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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.
- Shows the reader how 'humanity' as a collective subject plays a contested but necessary role in discourses on the atrocity crimes and dehumanization
- Describes and assesses the experiences of dehumanization of both victims and perpetrators
- Demonstrates how some forms of suffering are unrecognizable to the legal order of international criminal law, yet remain as 'silent claims' questioning the boundaries of that order
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July 2025Hardback
9781009418980
152 pages
244 × 170 mm
0.435kg
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Table 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.
