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.

‘This volume is another welcome addition to the prestigious Law in Context series of legal textbooks and treaties. The series is a fitting tribute to the late professor William Twining, one of its founding editors, and to his contribution to legal scholarship and legal education … This book is an important and timely intervention on these events and on the status of those institutions and the principles they sought (I use the past tense deliberately) to represent, apply and implement at the edges of human conduct. These include legal institutions and principles based upon ideas of justice within a common humanity, claiming international application but with limited universal authority to do so.’

Christopher Stanley Source: The Law Society Gazette