Law and Inhumanity
Law and Inhumanity
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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
Reviews & endorsements
‘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, The Law Society Gazette
Product details
- Published: July 2025
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9781009418980
- Length: 152 pages
- Dimensions: 251 × 179 × 15 mm
- Weight: 0.44kg
- Availability: Available
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.
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